He tells Lucy that his death four years ago was not a suicide, but the result of accidentally kicking the valve on a gas-fired room heater in his sleep. The ghost, a roguish sea captain named Daniel Gregg, manifests. On the first night after moving in with her young daughter, Anna, and her loyal maid, Martha, Lucy is terrorized by apparitions, but she stands resolute and demands the ghost show himself. She rents a house there named Gull Cottage, although it has a reputation for being haunted by the former owner, who committed suicide. Lucy Muir moves to the seaside village of Whitecliff despite the disapproval of her in-laws. In Britain in the early 1900s, recently widowed Mrs. In 1945, 20th Century Fox bought the film rights to the novel, published only in the United Kingdom at that time. Mankiewicz, and is based on a 1945 novel written by Josephine Leslie under the pseudonym of R.A. Muir is a 1947 American romantic fantasy film starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison.
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