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Portrait of Jennie
Why this pick
Like The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, it turns a supernatural romance into a tender, misty meditation on longing, memory, and love that seems to exist outside ordinary time.
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MOVIE1947 1h 44m USA
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The Uninvited
Why this pick
For its evocative seaside house and graceful old-Hollywood ghostliness, this offers a more mysterious but similarly atmospheric escape into romance, solitude, and the pull of the past.
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Blithe Spirit
Why this pick
David Lean brings polished period elegance and mischievous spectral comedy to a ghostly love triangle; it is breezier than The Ghost and Mrs. Muir but shares its sophisticated supernatural wit.
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Heaven Can Wait
Why this pick
Its refined, playful treatment of death and remembrance carries the same classic-Hollywood blend of adult romance, melancholy, and sparkling humor, though in a more urbane register.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In the early 1900s, young widow Lucy Muir moves to the seaside English village of Whitecliff despite the disapproval of her mother-in-law and domineering sister-in-law. She rents Gull Cottage despite its reputation of being haunted by the spirit of a seaman who committed suicide there, and moves in with her young daughter, Anna, and her maid, Martha.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Gene Tierney
Lucy Muir
Rex Harrison
Capt. Daniel Gregg
Vanessa Brown
Anna Muir as an Adult
Anna Lee
Mrs. Fairley
Robert Coote
Mr. Coombe
Natalie Wood
Anna Muir as a Child
Isobel Elsom
Angelica - Mother-in-law
George Sanders
Miles Fairley