The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

Captain Daniel Gregg (Rex Harrison) to Lucy "Lucia" Muir (Gene Tierney) in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947). Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz:

"You've made your choice...the only choice you could make. You've chosen life...and that's as it should be...whatever the reckoning. And that's why I'm going away, my dear. Oh, I can't help you now. I can only confuse you more and destroy whatever chance you have left of happiness. You must make your own life amongst the living. And whether you'll meet fair winds or foul...find your own way to harbor in the end..

Lucia, listen to me. Listen, my dear. You've been dreaming...dreaming of a sea captain that haunted this house..of talks you had with him...even a book you both wrote together...but, Lucia, you wrote the book..you and no one else. The book you imagined from his house...from his picture on the wall...from his gear lying around in every room. It's been a dream, Lucia. And in the morning and the years after. as a dream...and it'll die...as all dreams must die at waking. How you'd have loved the North Cape and the fjords and the midnight sun...to sail across the reef at Barbados...where the blue water turns to green...to the Falklands where a southerly gale rips the whole sea white! What we've missed, Lucia! What we've both missed. Goodbye, my darling."

The film also stars George Sanders as Miles Fairley

Edna Best as Martha Huggins, Vanessa Brown as Anna Muir (as an adult), Anna Lee as Mrs. Fairley

Natalie Wood as Anna Muir (as a child), Robert Coote as Mr. Coombe, Isobel Elsom as Angelica Muir, Lucy's mother-in-law, Victoria Horne as Eva Muir, Lucy's sister-in-law and Whitford Kane as Mr. Sproule, the publisher. Music by Bernard Hermann and cinematography by Charles Lang. Screenplay by Philip Dunne and based on the 1945 novel, The Ghost of Captain Gregg and Mrs. Muir.