Something went wrong
Try again later.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Defying her conventional in-laws, young widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) leaves London with her young daughter and moves away for a quieter life in a secluded seaside cottage. There she finds her cottage is haunted... and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
10 March 1884, Chicago, Illinois, USA
March 7, 1914 in Weehawken, New Jersey, USA
2 January 1913, Ightham, Kent, England, UK
3 March 1900, Hove, East Sussex, England, UK
July 30, 1879 in London, England, UK
3 August 1886, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
October 30, 1922 in Seattle, Washington, USA
16 March 1893, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
September 18, 1885 in London, England, UK
20 July 1938, San Francisco, California, USA
5 March 1908, Huyton, Lancashire, England, UK [now Huyton, Knowsley, Merseyside, England, UK]
1 November 1911, New York City, New York, USA
April 01, 2003
...director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1947 postwar love letter to the world.
March 31, 2006
Classic fantasy with charming, haunting performances
March 31, 2010
It didn't move me as much as I think it should have.
April 07, 2003
While a product of the Hollywood studio system, the film is a remarkable piece of thoughtful moviemaking for adults.
September 21, 2003
Lyrical, touching romance, carmingly old-fashioned
May 02, 2004
An out-of-this world love story; Tierney was never more beautiful; Harrison never as rugged or handsome. A timeless treasure.
July 03, 2012
[Tierney's] her somewhat stiff presence seems appropriate to the formality of the period while her astonishing beauty is only enhanced by the many layers of clothing women were expected to wear at the time.
April 16, 2003
Most notable for its effortless shifts in tone, starting out as a charming comedy before segueing into a melodrama ... and finally erupting as a deeply affecting tragedy capped by a redemptive ending.
January 02, 2011
Charming family classic is also thought-provoking.
March 14, 2009
Top fantasy film of any time; featuring Rex Harrison, Gene Tierney.
December 10, 2013
'The Ghost and Mrs. Muir' easily could have stumbled into melodrama or dramedy. It works as well as it does because of understatement, and it's still a charming and captivating film more than 60 years later.
October 31, 2005
[A] charming tale of two lost and lonely souls, one of which just happens to be dead, who take some grudging comfort in each other's presence.