The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 is a romantic fantasy film starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. The director was Joseph L. Mankiewicz. It is based on a 1945 novel written by Josephine Leslie under the pseudonym of R. A. Dick. In 1945, 20th Century Fox bought the film rights to the novel, which had been published only in the United Kingdom at that time. It was shot entirely in California.

When she visits the publisher in London, Lucy becomes attracted to suave Miles Fairley George Sanders, a writer of childrens stories under the nomdeplume of Uncle Neddy, who helps her obtain an interview. Despite a rocky beginning, the publisher agrees to publish the captains book, and the Captains racy recollections, published under the title of Blood and Swash, make the book a bestseller, allowing Lucy to buy the house. Fairley follows her back to Whitecliff and begins a whirlwind courtship. Captain Gregg, initially jealous of their relationship, decides finally to cease being an obstacle to her happiness. While Lucy sleeps, Daniel places the suggestion in her mind that that she alone wrote the book and that he was just a dream. His task accomplished, Captain Gregg disappears from the house. Shortly thereafter, while again visiting her publisher in London, Lucy decides to pay a surprise visit to Fairleys home. There she discovers to her horror that not only is Miles already married with two children, but that this sort of thing has happened before with other women. Lucy leaves heartbroken and returns to Whitecliff to spend the rest of her life as a single woman in Gull Cottage, with Martha to look after her.About ten years later, Anna Vanessa Brown returns with her Navy lieutenant fianc. In the course of a conversation with her mother, Anna reveals that she knew about the story of Captain Greggs ghost as he was her childhood companion during the same year Lucy and the Captain were acquainted. She also knew about her mothers relationship with Miles Fairley all the time, rekindling faint memories in her mother of the captain. It is also revealed that Fate has not been kind to Fairley he has become fat, bald and a heavy drinker, and his wife and children have finally left him. ........

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