
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir(1947)
In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.


“The whole town WHISPERED about these two!”
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
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Dorothy McGuire
Laura Pennington

Robert Young
Oliver Bradford

Herbert Marshall
Major John Hillgrove

Mildred Natwick
Mrs. Abigail Minnett

Spring Byington
Violet Price

Hillary Brooke
Beatrice Alexander

Richard Gaines
Frederick 'Freddy' Price
Alec Englander
Danny 'Taxi' Stanton

Robert Clarke
Marine Corporal
Eden Nicholas
Soldier
The Enchanted Cottage is a drama, fantasy, romance film released in 1945 exploring themes of suicide attempt, transformation, seclusion, enchantment, based on play or musical, cottage. Directed by John Cromwell, it stars Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall. A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
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