The Ghost And Mrs. Muir (1947)

In turn of the century London, a young widow (Gene Tierney) decides it's time to leave the home of her mother in law (Isobel Elsom) and strike out on her own. So she and her young daughter (Natalie Wood) move into an old house on the seacoast. But she finds the house is haunted by its former owner, a sea captain (Rex Harrison). Simply put, this is one of the greatest movie romances ever made. Two people who fall in love but can never consummate that love (for obvious reasons) so it's a movie about a deeper love than the physical kind. Harrison's sea captain may be dead but his performance isn't. He's never exuded more sex appeal in any of his other films. His gruff and bawdy sea captain pairs nicely with the prim and proper Victorian widow played by Tierney. She can't match him in the acting department but she's enormously appealing. I've seen the film countless times and like clockwork, my tear ducts water at the film's finale. Bernard Herrmann's score is a thing of beauty. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With George Sanders, Edna Best, Vanessa Brown, Robert Coote and Anna Lee.