Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979

Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball

Bernard HerrmannAndante Cantabile (The Ghost & Mrs. Muir: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

“Bernard Herrmann considered The Ghost & Mrs. Muir his finest score: poetic, unique, and highly personal. It contains the essence of his Romantic ideology - his fascination with death, romantic ecstasy, and the beautiful loneliness of solitude…Herrmann paints his most eloquent work, filled with the pain of frustrated desire and the Romantic promise of spiritual transcendence through death.”

-excerpted from A Heart at Fire’s Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann by Steven Smith

Gene Tierney in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Photographer: Jim Reid (via)

Gene Tierney in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Photographer: Jim Reid (via)

Bernard Herrmann - Prelude (The Ghost & Mrs. Muir: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)