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Ghost Story (1981) More at IMDbPro »

• The last feature film for veteran actors Melvyn Douglas, Fred Astaire, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr..
  
  
• Melvyn Douglas (Dr. John Jaffery) is actually mentioned in the novel on which the movie is based.
  
  
• Fred Astaire (Ricky Hawthorne) is actually mentioned in the novel on which the movie is based.
  
  
• Young Ricky Hawthorne says, "I can't dance." Old Ricky Hawthorne is played by Fred Astaire. This line wasn't in the novel.
  
  
• Searching for someone qualified to score a story dealing with elderly people, the production team was reminded of Le chat (1971), a French film about a bitter old couple spending time arguing. That's how Philippe Sarde was hired and why some of the main theme of that precise film is repeatedly used in the score of "Ghost Story."
  
  
• Robin Curtis' film debut.
  
  
• The pipe organ used is the same organ that was used by Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925).
  
  
• Interiors were constructed inside the abandoned Union Station, the former New York Central Railroad's passenger train station on Broadway in Albany, NY and included a two story set. The murder or death scene was filmed on the second floor of that set. Scenes were filmed in sequence and the two story set was significantly aged after the death scene so that it later appeared as the derelict house. After the movie, the old station was refurbished and restored to its former grandeur and served as office space for Fleet Bank and now Bank of America.
  
  

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