The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is a 1947 American romantic fantasy movie directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and was based on the 1945 novel by Josephine Leslie. It stars Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Vanessa Brown, Natalie Wood, Victoria Horne, Isobel Elsom. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1948. It was spun off in a television series in 1968.