The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: Vintage Movie Classics [Paperback]

The basis for Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s cinematic romance starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison.
 
Burdened by debt after her husband's death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Cottage in the quaint seaside village of Whitecliff, despite multiple warnings that the house is haunted. Upon discovering the rumors to be true, the young widow ends up forming a special companionship with the ghost of handsome former sea captain Daniel Gregg. Through the struggles of supporting her children, seeking out romance from the wrong places, and working to publish the captain's story as a book,Blood and Swash, Lucy finds in her secret relationship with Captain Gregg a comfort and blossoming love she never could have predicted.
 
Originally published in 1945, made into a movie in 1947, and later adapted into a television sitcom in 1968, this romantic tale explores how love can develop without boundaries, both in this life and beyond. 

With a new foreword by Adriana Trigiani.

Vintage Movie Classicsspotlights classic films that have stood the test of time, now rediscovered through the publication of the novels on which they were based.R. A. Dick was the pseudonym of Irish writer Josephine Aimee Campbell Leslie, who was also the author ofThe Devil and Mrs. Devine. She died in 1979.Excerpted from the Foreword


They had me atLucia. You’ve heard of pregnant women craving ice cream,

burnt bacon, or green olives, but when I was expecting, I craved an old black-and-white movie from 1947 calledThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

Lucy Muir (the elegant Gene Tierney) is a young widow in the early 1900s with a daughter (nine-year-old Natalie Wood) she adores, living with her suffocating in-laws, who represent the oppression of the Victorian era. Fed up, Lucy takes her small annual stipend, only child, and faithful maid and leaves. She heads for the coast, where she lC¶