The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) romantic fantasy film starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. It is based on a 1945 novel written by Josephine Leslie under the pseudonym of R. A. Dick. In 1945, Twentieth Century Fox bought the film rights to the novel, which had only been published in the United Kingdom at that time.
In early 1900s England, Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney), a young widow, moves to the seaside and into Gull Cottage with her daughter Anna (...
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) romantic fantasy film starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. It is based on a 1945 novel written by Josephine Leslie under the pseudonym of R. A. Dick. In 1945, Twentieth Century Fox bought the film rights to the novel, which had only been published in the United Kingdom at that time.
In early 1900s England, Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney), a young widow, moves to the seaside and into Gull Cottage with her daughter Anna (Natalie Wood) and her maid Martha (Edna Best). She rents the house despite rumours the house is haunted, but she is visited by the ghostly apparition of the former owner, a roguish sea captain named Daniel Gregg (Rex Harrison), who promises to make himself known only to her; Anna is too young for ghosts. When Lucy's source of investment income dries up, he dictates to her his memoirs, entitled Blood and Swash. His racy recollections make the book a bestseller, allowing Lucy to stay in the house. During the course of writing the book, they fall...
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