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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Name: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Drama
Released: 1947
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Vanessa Brown

In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

1947 · Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 105 min · Romance · Fantasy · Drama · 16 frames

Tagline

THE SPIRIT... so willing! THE FLESH... so weak! THE ROMANCE... so wonderful!

Crew

Screenplay: Philip Dunne
Cinematography: Charles Lang
Edited by: Dorothy Spencer
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Produced by: Fred Kohlmar

Cast

Gene Tierney as Lucy Muir
Rex Harrison as Capt. Daniel Gregg
George Sanders as Miles Fairley
Edna Best as Martha Huggins
Vanessa Brown as Anna Muir as an Adult
Anna Lee as Mrs. Fairley
Robert Coote as Mr. Coombe
Natalie Wood as Anna Muir as a Child
Isobel Elsom as Angelica Muir
Victoria Horne as Eva Muir

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: 20th Century Fox
Themes: sea, widow, bedroom, cottage, black and white, dog, seaside, ghost, children's book, seaside town

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More by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Suddenly, Last Summer — 1959
Dragonwyck — 1946
No Way Out — 1950
The Barefoot Contessa — 1954
A Letter to Three Wives — 1949
All About Eve — 1950
Cleopatra — 1963
Sleuth — 1972

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