Lucy immediately discovers that the haunting is very real, Captain Gregg is a salty, worldly old ghost, who 'allows' her to stay in his house if she promises to leave it to retired sailors in her will. They must find an affordable new house, and Gull Cottage, mostly because of the supposed haunting by a previous occupant, proves the perfect place for them. Lucy Muir has two young children when her husband dies. The lifetime of friendship between a widow and the ghost inhabiting her house is a warm one, and very much set in its time. I've seen both the fim and a theatrical adaptation, enjoying the gentle humour of both. Elizabeth Jasicki does a very nice job narrating. What follows is a lively story, at times full of joy and others heartbreaking but never, ever boring. The previous owner does not want new tenants. The house she chooses is very inexpensive because no tenant stays more than 24 hours. Lucy suffers a spell of rebelliousness and moves herself and her children to a house overlooking the sea near a village. They make all her decisions including those for her children. Lucy, now a widow, is living with her husband's family who refers to her (to her face) as "poor. When her husband died, she found herself penniless because her husband had gambled with the stock market. She had two children and was a good mother. Lucy was a good child, who married and was a good wife. The story follows Lucy a dutiful young woman of her age, late Victorian/Edwardian. ![]() The audiobook was as enjoyable as the movie although there are a few differences. I was delighted to find the audiobook of the novel the movie was based on. After repeated viewings, it never lost the sense of romance and magic I found on my first viewing. I am often critical of female narrators doing male voices (few can do them well) but Jasicki does a great job on the Captain, as well as the other male characters, and does a perfect job on Mrs. The end of the book is particularly good and even better than the end of the movie. In the book she really is a tiny little thing. Muir) is not a tiny little thing, but other characters talk of her that way. One interesting note is in the movie Gene Tierney (playing Mrs. The book differs from the movie in quite a few ways, and each is better in its own way. I enjoyed the characters (and this narration) as well as the humor and social commentary. One could successfully argue this is a very boring book, but not to me. It is basically a romance (with no romance) and only vignettes driving character development. The novel does not have any excitement, action, or even much story. I have seen the movie many, many, times but only recently noticed it was based upon a novel. Capitan Gregg became one of my role models (along with Cary Grant, Professor Higgins, Atticus Finch, and Albert Einstein). ![]() Muir became one of my mother's favorite and most watched movies. (The graceful passage of the actors from one side of the camera to the other, and the surprising cuts that result, have a musical elegance.) Depicting the supernatural with a rationalistic clarity, plumbing the paradoxes of solitude and desire, experience and invention, Mankiewicz invests this richly sentimental, tenderly nuanced tale with deep, unresolved, philosophical mystery.When my father died when I was seven, The Ghost and Mrs. Mankiewicz stage-manages the ectoplasmic games of appearances and disappearances, of thrown voices and untoward nudges, with a subtly expressive flair. The achingly impossible bond of the living and the dead-or of a body and a soul-stands in gloriously in for all doomed romances and all-possessing fantasies. Muir takes dictation from the spectre for a book about his life, then faces his jealousy when she’s courted by a suave London author (George Sanders). In financial straits-and in revolt against her late husband’s constricting mother and sister-Mrs. Mankiewicz’s 1947 romantic drama, about the virtual love affair of a free-spirited young widow (Gene Tierney) and the ghost of the ship captain whose seaside house she rents (Rex Harrison), a paean to the artistic imagination. ![]() Intricate emotion and exquisite technique make the director Joseph L.
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