Category: Fantasy
All Genres: Fantasy, Romance
Release Year: 1947
Country: USA
Runtime: 104
Rating: 4.3 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Sound: Mono
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Writing by: Philip Dunne – (screenplay)
R.A. Dick – (novel)

Produced by: Fred Kohlmar – producer

Cast: Gene Tierney – Lucy Muir
Rex Harrison – Capt. Daniel Gregg
George Sanders – Miles Fairley
Edna Best – Martha Huggins
Vanessa Brown – Anna Muir as an Adult
Anna Lee – Mrs. Miles Fairley
Robert Coote – Mr. Coombe
Natalie Wood – Anna Muir as a Child
Isobel Elsom – Angelica, Mother-in-law
Victoria Horne – Eva, Sister-in-law
Helen Freeman – Author Displaced by Lucy (uncredited)

Music: Bernard Herrmann
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Plot Outline: In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted…and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
Plot: In 1900, strong-willed widow Lucy Muir goes to live in Gull Cottage by the British seaside, even though it appears to be haunted. Sure enough, that very night she meets the ghost of crusty former owner Captain Gregg…and refuses to be scared off. Indeed, they become friends and allies, after Lucy gets used to the idea of a mans ghost haunting her bedroom. But when a charming live man comes courting, Lucy and the captain must deal with their feelings for each other.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Credits scroll backwards.

Goofs: We know about 3 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Capt Gregg appears next to Lucy on the train and scoffs at Fairleys motivations. The scenery going past on Greggs side of the car is full of buildings, and billboards, right up close to the train tracks. When the focus is on Lucy, well see open fields, trees in the distance, farmland. This goes back and forth several times throughout the scene.

Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• Gene Tierneys first approach to the character of Lucy Muir was playful, almost screwball. After a conference between Darryl F. Zanuck and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the first two days shooting were redone so that Tierney could give the character more depth. The change resulted in huge critical acclaim for the actress.
• R.A. Dick was the pseudonym of Josephine Leslie, who wrote the 1945 novel “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir”.
• In 1990 there was serious at talk at 20th Century Fox of remaking “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” with Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer in the leads, but the poor box-office for The Russia House (1990) killed it.