The Uninvited (1944)

The Uninvited ​is a 1944 horror film starring Ray Milland, Gail Russell, Ruth Hussey , Donald Crisp, and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was nominated for the 1945 Oscar for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. It is known as the first horror film to actually show the ghost’s appearance on-camera.

​Plot
Two siblings move into a seaside gothic mansion which they soon realize was because of it’s unsavory past, and their neighbor’s daughter somehow has a strange connection to the past events.

​Cast

 * Ray Milland as Roderick Fitzerald
 * Ruth Hussey as Pamela Fitzgerald
 * Donald Crisp as Cmdr. Beech
 * Cornelia Otis Skinner as Miss Holloway
 * Dorothy Stickney as Miss Bird
 * Barbara Everest as Lizzie Flynn
 * Alan Napier as Dr. Scott
 * Gail Russel as Stella Meredith
 * Betty Farrington as Carmel’s Ghost
 * John Kiernan as Foreword Narrator