It""s the best way, really!" Swanbeck promised that ""Miss Hall""s"" (Nyah) efforts would be rewarded with an expungement of her criminal record, and then asked where she might be located.Gandalf warned of coming war and told the uncooperative Denethor to light the beacons to alert neighboring armies.The black and white film plays on the audience""s emotions, by involving and drawing them into complicity with the tragic resolution.Mankiewicz""sThe Ghost and Mrs.Muir (1947)opposite Rex Harrison.However, before she was chosen for the lead role in mid-January of 1945, other actresses were considered, including Tallulah Bankhead, Ida Lupino, Linda Darnell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, and Lauren Bacall.