08-16-2016, 04:10 PM
I was really hesitant to watch a movie from 1947 because I assumed it would be super boring, but I have to highly recommend The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
I have these stereotypes for how characters are going to act depending on the time period, so I was honestly shocked that the leading lady openly admits she didn't love her recently passed husband and that her daughter just sort of "happened" (you never see her really engaging with her daughter).
Instead of living with her in-laws, Mrs. Muir decides she wants her independence and moves with her daughter to a house that's haunted and people don't even last a week in. She ends up befriending the ghost of a sea captain who accidentally brought about his own demise. From there he helps her with money problems by telling her his life story to make into a book and she decides what to do with her life from there.
I honestly adored Mrs. Muir. She's the type who just wants to chill by herself and feels loneliest when she's amongst other people instead of when she's with herself.
There was a TV series based on the movie that keeps Mrs. Muir, the captain, her daughter, and the housekeeper, but also gives her a son for some reason. I guess Charles Nelson Riley is in it as well. I've sadly not been able to catch much of it, but I'm very interested. I found out someone has it on YouTube so I'll have to binge on it sometime.
I have these stereotypes for how characters are going to act depending on the time period, so I was honestly shocked that the leading lady openly admits she didn't love her recently passed husband and that her daughter just sort of "happened" (you never see her really engaging with her daughter).
Instead of living with her in-laws, Mrs. Muir decides she wants her independence and moves with her daughter to a house that's haunted and people don't even last a week in. She ends up befriending the ghost of a sea captain who accidentally brought about his own demise. From there he helps her with money problems by telling her his life story to make into a book and she decides what to do with her life from there.
I honestly adored Mrs. Muir. She's the type who just wants to chill by herself and feels loneliest when she's amongst other people instead of when she's with herself.
There was a TV series based on the movie that keeps Mrs. Muir, the captain, her daughter, and the housekeeper, but also gives her a son for some reason. I guess Charles Nelson Riley is in it as well. I've sadly not been able to catch much of it, but I'm very interested. I found out someone has it on YouTube so I'll have to binge on it sometime.