Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Ghosts, Love Triangle, Haunted House, Period Piece, Fantasy, Supernatural, Love
Plot: Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s bittersweet, sparkling romance between a young widow and a sea captain’s ghost weaves a magical tale of immortal love. Determined to live her life the way she wants, newly widowed Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) declines her straitlaced in-laws’ demand that she live with them and moves with her daughter (a young Natalie Wood) to the seaside into a cottage haunted by the handsome, blustering Captain Gregg (Rex Harrison). A deal is struck between the two in the wee hours of the morning allowing Lucy to stay in the house and the captain to materialize only in the master bedroom. As they gradually get to know each other better, Lucy’s spunk and stubbornness gains first the captain’s grudging respect, then his heart. But when another man woos Lucy, both must face that her future lies with the living, not in the spirit world.A timeless romantic favorite, THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR subtly traces the complex development of friendship and love, themes that director Mankiewicz excels with in films such as A LETTER TO THREE WIVES and ALL ABOUT EVE, projecting a keen understanding of the tangled emotions and motives that compel people toward their fates. The film is based on the novel by R.A. Dick and scored by Bernard Herrmann.
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| Philip Dunne
How Green Was My Valley, The Agony and the Ecstasy, The Egyptian |
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 | Natalie Wood
Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story, The Searchers |
 | | Edna Best
The Man Who Knew Too Much, Intermezzo: A Love Story | Vanessa Brown
The Bad and the Beautiful, The Heiress, Bless the Beasts & Children | Anna Lee
The Sound of Music, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, How Green Was My Valley | |
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