Film 814: The Ghost and Mrs.
Muir
Trivia: Gene Tierney's first approach
to the character of Lucy Muir was playful, almost screwball. After a conference
between Darryl F. Zanuck and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the first two
days shooting were redone so that Tierney could give the character more depth.
The change resulted in huge critical acclaim for the actress.
R.A. Dick was the pseudonym
of Josephine Leslie, who wrote the 1945 novel "The Ghost and Mrs.
Muir".
In 1990 there was serious at
talk at 20th Century Fox of remaking "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" with Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer in the leads, but
the poor box-office for The
Russia House killed it.
The word "muir"
means "the sea" in Gaelic. Many times sailors are said to have been
"married" to the sea, or that the only woman they ever loved was the
sea.
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