{"id":11807,"date":"2017-01-30T20:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T02:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11807"},"modified":"2017-01-27T15:55:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T21:55:44","slug":"the-ghost-and-mrs-muir-1947-joseph-mankiewicz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11807","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947, Joseph Mankiewicz)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My second ghost story this month after <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11730\">Journey to the Shore<\/a><\/em>, which also featured corporeal-looking ghosts with appearances signaled by lighting changes.  Widowed Mrs. Muir (Gene Tierney at her cutest, also of ghost film <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/38\">Heaven Can Wait<\/a><\/em>) gets a good deal on a haunted house.  She soon runs into financial trouble, but rather than get rid of the housekeeper (Edna Best, the Doris Day of the original <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8616\">Man Who Knew Too Much<\/a><\/em>), she teams up with house-ghost Captain Gregg (Rex Harrison, the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/371\">My Fair Lady<\/a><\/em>\/<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2374\">Unfaithfully Yours<\/a><\/em> lead shouter at his shoutiest) to ghostwrite his uncensored memoirs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/mrsmuir1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/mrsmuir2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The living Mrs. Muir and dead Mr. Gregg learn to tolerate each other and gradually develop deeper feelings, but Gregg disappears after she starts dating a children&#8217;s author she meets at her publisher&#8217;s, creepy George Sanders (Ingrid&#8217;s husband in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7707\">Voyage to Italy<\/a><\/em>).  When that doesn&#8217;t work out because he turns out to be married, she stays home staring at the sea for decades until death, when she&#8217;s reunited with her beloved captain (he could&#8217;ve come back sooner and kept her company, but it&#8217;s still a nice ending).<\/p>\n<p>One of Joe Mank&#8217;s earliest movies, two years before <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8759\">A Letter to Three Wives<\/a><\/em>.  The story was expanded into a late-1960&#8217;s TV series with Laura Dern&#8217;s mom from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/31\">Blue Velvet<\/a><\/em> as the lead, and an Irishman from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2856\">Caprice<\/a><\/em> as the ghost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My second ghost story this month after Journey to the Shore, which also featured corporeal-looking ghosts with appearances signaled by lighting changes. Widowed Mrs. Muir (Gene Tierney at her cutest, also of ghost film Heaven Can Wait) gets a good deal on a haunted house. She soon runs into financial trouble, but rather than get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,2208,110,310,497,2209],"class_list":["post-11807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-gene-tierney","tag-ghosts","tag-haunted-house","tag-joseph-mankiewicz","tag-rex-harrison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11834,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions\/11834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}