# The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

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**Runtime**: 105 min
**Genres**: Romance, Fantasy, Drama
**Directed by**: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
**Written by**: Philip Dunne
**Starring**: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Vanessa Brown, Anna Lee

> *THE SPIRIT... so willing! THE FLESH... so weak! THE ROMANCE... so wonderful!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A widowed writer negotiates tenancy with a spectral mariner who claims squatter’s rights. Their ink-and-ghost partnership yields both prose and peril. A cozy haunting that forgets to haunt hard enough.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, cozy, outsider, tender

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