
Blithe Spirit(1945)
A harmless séance at a novelist's home summons the ghost of his glamorous first wife.


“It's Gala-Gala with Girls, Gaiety and that Goldwyn Glamour!”
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.

Danny Kaye
Edwin Dingle / Buzzy Bellew

Virginia Mayo
Ellen Shanley

Vera-Ellen
Midge Mallon

Donald Woods
Monte Rossen

S.Z. Sakall
Schmidt

Allen Jenkins
Chimp

Edward Brophy
Torso

Steve Cochran
Ten Grand Jackson

Otto Kruger
District Attorney

Richard Lane
Assistant District Attorney
Wonder Man is a comedy, fantasy, music film released in 1945 exploring themes of dance, possession, comedian, musical, murder, twins. Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, it stars Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen. Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.
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