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Post by airborne3502 on Mar 6, 2017 0:29:04 GMT
Is one of the most romantic movies I've ever seen.
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Post by airborne3502 on Mar 6, 2017 1:05:07 GMT
Couldn't agree with you more. One of my favorites. So beautifully written, performed, and directed. With a great score by Bernard Herrmann. I think it's probably my favorite Gene Tierney film. That score was amazing. The music builds to this wonderful crescendo as The Ghost is telling Mrs. Muir the wonderful adventures they missed as he's leaving.
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Post by Wesley Crusher on Mar 6, 2017 1:20:40 GMT
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) Very Good 7/10
#11 Ranked Gene Tierney film out of 26 seen
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 1:26:48 GMT
I love it as well and Gene Tierney's distant persona works really well in it.
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Post by naterdawg on Mar 6, 2017 2:57:38 GMT
The ending is both uplifting and sad!
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Post by neurosturgeon on Mar 6, 2017 16:35:32 GMT
It is one of the first classic films I recall seeing on TV. I saw it around the same time "My Fair Lady" came out. I will watch it anytime I come across it.
I had some of the music on my oldest iPod for years, but I recently purchased the entire score from iTunes.
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Post by snsurone on Mar 6, 2017 18:33:35 GMT
The movie is definitely better than the TV sitcom based on it. What a waste of the talented Hope Lange and Edward Mulhare.
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Post by pippinmaniac on Mar 7, 2017 3:48:41 GMT
I remember watching this on AMC, back before they started showing commercials. This is a prime example of a well shot black and white film. This is the film that made me want to delve into classic movies, and I haven't looked back. The ending always brings me to tears, and I agree that this is one of the most romantic movies ever.
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Post by telegonus on Mar 7, 2017 7:52:44 GMT
I love The Ghost & Mrs Muir, the music is beautiful, the story deeply romantic, however I can only watch it now if I'm in a certain mood. For me, it's not a movie for all seasons. I have to be in a certain frame of mind. There's an underlying sadness in the film that can bring me down.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 13:33:39 GMT
Wonderful movie! I think it's also one of the classics that got me hooked. Agreed, the ending is bittersweet.
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Post by marshamae on Mar 7, 2017 15:09:39 GMT
A lovely romantic film. Tierney was wonderful but let me say a few words for Rex Harrison. He was generally acknowledged to be ,as Noel Coward called him, "the best light comedian of his generation. " This was no light comedy. Oh he was funny, but it took an actor to get the guts of his wonderful speech to the sleeping Lucia as he slips out of her life to let her pursue the living.
Then there is darling Natalie Wood. It's a small part but she is terrific, never cloying, always a child with a sense of humour and a twist.
Edna Best is an actress I always watch. As the companion maid she is full of grouchy affection. George Sanders as the egregious Uncle Neddie is perfect, smooth and glamorous , with just a hint of sneakiness that telegraphs the punch. When the punch comes and we learn what he has been up to , we can share the shock with Lucy and yet say , like Edna Best , that we knew all along.
Btw Uncle Neddie's wife ,who delivers the punch, is lovely Anna Lee. Why did she go brunette? She had her best role in How Green was my Valley as Bronwyn, the widowed wife of the oldest brother. She was a lovely blond, a fine actress, and like all the parts in GA MM , she gives her small scene importance and weight. This is necessary since all Tierney has to do is react, which makes no sense unless there is something to react to.
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Post by outrider127 on Mar 7, 2017 22:40:48 GMT
Is one of the most romantic movies I've ever seen. yes, good movie, my SO made me watch it,told her it was pretty good--The Foxes Of Harrow(1948) was also good, if you're a Rex Harrison fan
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Post by telegonus on Mar 8, 2017 6:58:38 GMT
A lovely romantic film. Tierney was wonderful but let me say a few words for Rex Harrison. He was generally acknowledged to be ,as Noel Coward called him, "the best light comedian if his generation. " This was no light comedy. Oh he was funny, but it took an actor to get the guts of his wonderful speech to the sleeping Lucia as he slips out of her life to let her pursue the living. Then there is is darling Natalie Wood. It's a small part but she is terrific, never cloying, always a child with a sense of humour and a twist. Edna Best us an actress I always watch as tge companion maid she is full of grouchy affection. George Sanders as tge egregious Uncle Neddie is perfect, smooth and glamorous , with just a hint of sneakiness that telegraphs tge punch. When the punch comes and we learn what he has been up to , we can share the shock with Lucy and yet say , like Edna best , that we knew all along. Btw Uncle Neddie's wife ,who delivers the punch, is lovely Anna Lee. Why did she go brunette? She had her best role in How Green was my Valley as Bronwyn, the widowed wife of the oldest brother. She was a lovely blond, a fine actress, and like all the parts in GA MM , she gives her small scene importance and weight. This is necessary since all Tierney has to do is react, which makes no sense unless there is something to react to. Yes, total agreement re Rex Harrison, Marshamae. An apparently highly unlikable man personally (the stories about him are too numerous to recount here), and yet for all that he could be a magnificent actor when the spirit moved him, as it apparently did when he made The Ghost & Mrs Muir. The scene of his devastation over how Mrs Muir responds to how Miles Fairlie treats her is a revelation. It's a pity that there were scandals and gossip that I sense kept Harrison down for many years. My Fair Lady was a splendid comeback for him, and he owns Henry Higgins. He was also maybe the best actor for the works of George Bernard Shaw, which really put him on the map as a star player. My favorite Rax Harrison movie vehicle is Rake's Progress (aka The Notorious Gentleman). It got bad reviews in the States and isn't shown much on television. I recommend it highly if you're a Harrison fan.
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Post by marshamae on Mar 8, 2017 11:10:18 GMT
Harrison is one actor about whom I am a completist. I haven't seen Rake's Progress. I also haven't seen The Four poster. His films with wives Kay Kendall and Lily Palmer are special favorites although none of them are great films.
He was good in Shaw and Major Barbara is a huge favorite.
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Post by pippinmaniac on Mar 9, 2017 3:17:21 GMT
Harrison is one actor about whom I am a completist. I haven't seen Rake's Progress. I also haven't seen The Four poster. His films with wives Kay Kendall and Lily Palmer are special favorites although none of them are great films. He was good in Shaw and Major Barbara is a huge favorite. Have you seen him in "Unfaithfully Yours" with Linda Darnell? That one makes me smile.
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Post by marshamae on Mar 9, 2017 3:39:06 GMT
Love Unfaithfully yours. He's wonderful with Vivian Leigh in St Martins Lane , too. Also with Margaret Lockwood in Night Train to Munich.
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Post by petrolino on Mar 19, 2017 0:39:54 GMT
It's a beautiful fantasy; Hollywood produced some great ones in the 1940s.
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Post by pippinmaniac on Mar 20, 2017 2:54:56 GMT
It's a beautiful fantasy; Hollywood produced some great ones in the 1940s. Yes indeed. Real life was hard, but people could forget their problems for a couple of hours and go back out to face the world again with renewed hearts.
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Post by telegonus on Mar 20, 2017 5:33:42 GMT
Unfaithfully Yours is very funny. I think it did poorly at the box-office, with maybe the Carole Landis suicide tainting it. Its director, Preston Sturges should never have left his home studio, Paramount. His career never recovered afterward. The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend did poorly, too, and it isn't terrible and its star, Betty Grable, was box-office gold, yet she couldn't save this one.
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Post by wmcclain on Mar 21, 2017 2:08:30 GMT
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