Muir tv show season 1 episode 26 the music maker original u. It works as well as it does because of understatement, and its still a charming and captivating film more than 60. The ghost and mrs muir defying her conventional inlaws, young widow lucy muir gene tierney leaves london with her young daughter and moves away for a quieter life in a secluded seaside cottage. Muir quotes showing 117 of 17 oh, lucia the captain said softly, you are so little and so lovely. The ghost and mrs muir balconygreen eyes by theanglophile. Romantic ghost stories are often more about the absence of sex than the presence of spirits.
Dick in 1945 for fear of misogyny leading to no or low sales. Gene tierney plays turnofthecentury widow lucy muir, who escapes her impossible inlaws by moving into an old house on the english seacoast. Irelands josephine aimee campbell leslie was an eloquent, gifted authoress. Muir, gene tierney plays a widowed turnofthecentury londoner with no apparent prurient interests. Released by varese sarabande in 1997 vsd 5850 containing music from the ghost and mrs. The show was based on the eponymous 1947 film which had starred gene tierney and rex harrison and was in turn based on a 1945 novel by r.
The image measures 2107 2948 pixels and is 2909 kilobytes large. Muir original motion picture score bernard herrmann on allmusic 1975 arguably the. Mankiewicz, and is based on a 1945 novel written by josephine leslie under the pseudonym of r. Muir 1950 defying her conventional inlaws, young widow lucy muir gene tierney leaves london with her young daughter and moves away for. It is based on a 1945 novel written by josephine leslie under the pseudonym of r. Muir soundtrack from 1947, composed by bernard herrmann. There is only 9 seconds of the 20th century logo and no movie. Hunting down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the joseph l. Muir 20th centuryfox seems like a bit of ectoplasm left over from blithe spirit, but despite that handicap does fairly well by itself. Read download the ghost and mrs muir pdf pdf download. Muir 1947 is a romanticfantasy film starring gene tierney and rex harrison. At the end, lucy is sitting in the big chair in her bedroom, and martha leaves, pulling the door closed with her. Despite the warnings of realtor combe robert coote that the house might be haunted, the tenacious young widow.
She acquaints us with lucy, anna, gregg, and martha endearingly. In 1900, strongwilled widow lucy muir goes to live in gull cottage by the british seaside, even though it appears to be haunted. High resolution italian movie poster image for the ghost and mrs. When lucy loses her income, the captain comes up with a solution to her financial woes and, in the process, wins her heart. Muir script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the gene tierney and rex harrison movie. Despite all the trappings of a gothic tale, the film is in fact an ironic comedy, in which the ghost and. The film ended up being remade as a pedestrian tv sitcom in the late 1960s. Lucy muir and captain gregg are two lost souls adrift on their own sea who come together. The ghost and mrs muir tells the story of a young widow gene tierney who rents an old house by the sea that is haunted by the ghost of a sea captain rex harrison. Despite all the trappings of a gothic tale, the film is in fact an ironic comedy, in which the ghost and the widow play out their relationship as a battle of wits.
Muir is an american sitcom based on the 1947 film of the same name, which was based on the 1945 novel by r. Like its tvsitcom counterpart of the 1960s, the original film version of the ghost and mrs. A headstrong, independent widow goes against her late husbands familys wishes and strikes out on her own, young daughter and loyal maid by her side. Gene tierney is beautiful and her features are even more pronounced in black and white movies. She soon discovers her new home is haunted by the handsome ghost of a sea captain. Rex harrisondr doolittle, my fair lady and gene tierney an acress of many talents. This is what the exterior looked like on tv in the 1960s above. Muir 1947 is a romantic fantasy film starring gene tierney and rex harrison. The interiors for the tv show were sets on a soundstage, so they looked very different and not as nice.
Muir full movie stream free download the ghost and mrs. Muir is a gentle and warm romantic fable about a woman and the ghost she grows to love. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay andor viewings of the ghost and mrs. Sure enough, that very night she meets the ghost of crusty former owner captain gregg. The novel is a romantic ghost story, more novella than epic. A fan page dedicated to the charming 196870 nbc series starring hope lange and edward mulhare. A pretty english widow gene tierney rents a house by the seashore, complete with ghost. Muir dvd, bluray online at lowest price in india at amazon.
Muir is a superb illustration of how postworld war ii hollywood could deftly handle a romantic fable during an era when the movies could deliver escapism without bigbudget pyrotechnics. Edwin muir lucy widowed for one year, decides to move out of her controlling inlaws home in london to the english seaside with her adolescent daughter anna and their long devoted maid martha. Muir is a hybrid of the supernatural and the romantic, shying away from the humor of something like blithe spirit or the fear of the uninvited. Muir captivates me and draws me into a world of the past. My mother was misty because her italian immigrant mother had to trade lucia for the americanized lucy when she went to work in a factory in hoboken. Indeed, they become friends and allies, after lucy gets used to the idea of a mans ghost haunting her bedroom. Gene tierney, rex harrison, george sanders, edna best, vanessa brown, anna lee, robert coote, natalie wood, isobel elsom. Muir from the first note of the introduction music, the ghost and mrs. Muir may hit some structural bumps, but scene by scene, its beautifully crafted mankiewicz shows a deft touch with his actors, and langs lush, suitably salty blackandwhite cinematography earned him an academy award nomination. Starring rex harrison, gene tierney, george sanders. Lucy discovers the ghost of the deceased former owner, sea captain daniel gregg rex harrison, is haunting the house, but gat. Muir is based upon a lean victorian novel by josephine leslie who published under the name r. This film suited them both, rex as the ghost trying to scare the living daylights out of mrs muir a widow, whose trying her hardess to get away from her overbearing husbands family. In 1945, 20th century fox bought the film rights to the novel, which had been published only in the united kingdom at that time.