Rebecca nominated for 8 Academy Awards 

Once you start watching this movie, it's one that you just have to watch until the end. There's romance, humor, suspense, mystery and a great climatic ending. The movie plot is about a young innocent woman who weds a wealthy widower and goes to live in his palatial Cornish estate. Her good fortune turns nightmarish, however, when she finds herself haunted by the spector of her husband's first wife, Rebecca. Starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and George Sanders. REBECCA is one of the richest and most romantic movies ever directed by Hitchcock and was his first American-made film. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won two, including Best Picture. 132 Minutes. B/W 1940

Rebecca 

Rebecca is an Academy Award-winning 1940 psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first American project. Its screenplay was an adaptation by Joan Harrison and Robert E. Sherwood from Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel of the same name, and was produced by David O. Selznick.. It stars Laurence Olivier as Maxim de Winter, Joan Fontaine as his second wife, and Judith Anderson as his late wife's housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.

The film is a gothic tale about the lingering memory of the title character, which still affects Maxim, his new bride, and Mrs. Danvers long after her death.

Rebecca is a novel by British author Daphne du Maurier. When Rebecca was first published in 1938, du Maurier became - to her great surprise - one of the most popular authors of the day. Rebecca is considered to be one of her best works. It was partially inspired by Jane Eyre. Much of the novel was written while she was staying in Alexandria, Egypt where her husband was posted at the time.

Rebecca Movie Director 

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13 1899 - April 29 1980) was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer, who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.

After a very substantial career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood and, in 1956, became an American citizen, also retaining his British citizenship.

Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films, in a career spanning six decades, from the silent era, through the invention of sound films, and far into the colour era. For a complete list of his films, see "Alfred Hitchcock filmography".

As a director, he was among the most consistently recognizable by the general public, and was one of the most successful of his lifetime. He continues to be one of the best-known and most popular filmmakers of all time.

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Joan Fontaine Leading Lady 

Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is an Academy Award-winning British actress. She became an American citizen in April 1943. She was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo, Japan, the younger daughter of Walter de Havilland, and the former Lilian Augusta Ruse, a British actress known by her stage name of Lilian Fontaine, who married in 1914, and divorced when Joan was two. Walter was a British patent attorney with a practice in Japan. She is the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, from whom she has been estranged since 1975; both attended Los Gatos High School and the Notre Dame Convent Roman Catholic girls school in Belmont, California.

Joan was a sickly child who developed anemia following a combined attack of the measles and a streptococcic infection. Upon the advice of a physician, Joan's mother moved her and her sister to the United States where they settled in the town of Saratoga, California.

Joan's health improved dramatically and she was soon taking diction lessons along with her sister. She was also an extremely bright child and scored 160 on an intelligence test when she was three.[citation needed] When she was fifteen, Joan returned to Japan and lived with her father for two years.

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Laurence Olivier Leading Man 

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (; 22 May 1907 - 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer and the recipient of scores of awards. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson.Hodgdon, Barbara. Shakespeare Quarterly, "From the Editor", Fall, 2002 Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama. He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour. He is generally regarded to be the greatest actor of the 20th century, in the same category as David Garrick, Richard Burbage, Edmund Kean and Henry Irving in their own centuries.Walker, Andrew. BBC News, 22 May 2007 Olivier's Academy acknowledgments are considerable-fourteen Oscar nominations, with two wins for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film Hamlet, and two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. Additionally, he was a three-time Golden Globe and BAFTA winner.

Laurence Olivier Vintage Photos 

Judith Anderson Supporting Actress 

Dame Judith Anderson, (10 February 1897 - 3 January 1992) was an Australian Tony award- and Emmy-winning actress of stage and screen, who was also nominated for a Grammy and an Oscar. She is generally regarded by theater critics as the greatest classical actress produced by Australia.
Anderson was born Frances Margaret Anderson-Anderson in Adelaide, South Australia to Jessie Margaret and James Anderson-Anderson. She attended Norwood High School, and began acting in Australia before moving to New York in 1918. She established herself as a dramatic actress of note making several appearances in the plays of William Shakespeare.

Anderson made her professional debut as Francee Anderson in 1915 at the age of 17. She played the role of Stephanie at the Theater Royal, Sydney, in A Royal Divorce. Leading the company was the very popular English actor, Julius Knight whom Anderson later credited with laying the foundations of her acting skills. In the company were some American actors who influenced Francee to try her luck in America.

Judith Anderson Vintage Photos 

Daphne du Maurier Rebecca Book Author 

Daphne du Maurier is a much-loved author, her writing capturing the imagination in a way that few have been able to equal. Rebecca, her most famous novel, was a huge success on first publication and brought du Maurier international fame. This enduring classic remains hugely popular. In this celebration of Daphne du Maurier's life and achievements, leading writers, critics, and academics discuss the novels, short stories, and biographies that made her one of the most spellbinding and genre-defying authors of her generation. The film versions of her books are also explored. Contributors include Sarah Dunant, Sally Beauman, Margaret Forster, Antonia Fraser ......

The Daphne du Maurier Companion

Daphne du Maurier Rebecca Author 

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE (13 May, 1907-19 April, 1989) () was a famous British author of plays, novels and short stories. Many of her works were adapted into films, such as one of her most famous books, Rebecca, which won the Best Picture Oscar in 1940 for director Alfred Hitchcock, who would later bring her short story, The Birds, onto the big screen.

Alfred Hitchcock 1940's Movie Poll 

Rebecca Rare Collectible Theater Window Card 

Mrs. de Winter and Mrs. Danvers 

This picture is of a scene from the movie Rebecca, where Mrs. de Winter (left front) and Mrs. Danvers (right behind her) are standing by the bedroom window after the costume ball debacle.

Alfred Hitchcock Movie Collage 

Daphne du Maurier Links 

Daphne Du Maurier kimdir,

Du Maurier was born in London (although spending most of her life in her beloved Cornwall), the second of three daughters of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel Beaumont (maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont).[1] Her grandfather was the author and Punch cartoonist, George du Maurier who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby.

Daphne du Maurier Book Reviews

Daphne du Maurier, 1907 - 1989, DBE 1969, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Lady Browning, Bibliography, Festival of Arts and Literature, Conference.

Daphne's unruly passions | By genre | guardian.co.uk Books

Haunting mysteries, wild landscapes, brooding mansions and secret Sapphic desire ... welcome to 100 years of du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier

Book reviews and discussion for real people, by a real person. Du Maurier wrote both short stories and novels. Critics agree that she produced two kinds of works: historical romance and the gothic or psychological thriller. She won the National Book Award in 1938 for Rebecca.

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Alfred Hitchcock Blog Posts 

Empire Magazine’s Top 500 Movies of All Time

Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940) 319. The Lion King (Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff, 1994) 320. Braveheart (Mel Gibson, 1995) 321. Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957) 322. Aladdin (Ron Clements, John Musker, 1992) ...

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Olivia and Joan's (Fontaine) rivalry was first sensationalized in 1940 when both vied for the title role in Alfred Hitchcock's, Rebecca. It went to Joan, resulting in an Oscar nomination. Their second public bout came a couple years ...

October's Director Spotlight: Alfred Hitchcock

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Books by Author Daphne du Maurier 

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Frenchman's Creek (Virago Modern Classics) by Dame Daphne Du Maurier

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Frenchman's Creek, set in 17th-century England, is an absorbing tale of adventure, danger and passion. Lady St. Columb is bored with fashionable life at Court so she sets off for the peace and freedom of her husband's Cornwall estate. Quite unexpectedly, she stumbles on the mooring place of the white-sailed ship belonging to the daring Frenchman who plunders the shores of Cornwall. It is only a question of time before this philosopher-pirate captures the heart of the lovely Lady St. Columb. Sati...0 points

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Don't Look Now: Selected Stories of Daphne Du Maurier by Daphne Du Maurier

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A dead child appears in the alleyways of Venice; routine eye surgery reveals the beast within to a meek housewife; nature in revolt against man's abuse turns a harmless species into a force that threatens humankind; a dalliance with a beautiful stranger offers something more dangerous than a broken heart. In Daphne du Maurier's stories, the stuff of everyday life-grief, the limits of self-knowledge, battles between the sexes, and environmental degradation-burs...0 points

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The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier

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"Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, 'Je vous demande pardon,' and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well.

I was looking at myself."

Two men--one English, the other French--meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are astounded that they are so much alike that they could easily pass for each other. Over the course of a l...

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The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

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In this haunting tale, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch: if you happen to touch anyone while traveling in the past you will be thrust instantaneously to the present.

Magnus Lane, a University of London chemical researcher, asks his friend Richard Young and Young's family to stay at Kilmarth, an ancient house set in the wilds near the Cornish coast. Here,....

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My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

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The story is told by Philip Ashley, a young orphan who was taken in to raise by his cousin Ambrose, a young man not much more than a boy himself. And it was just the two of them for many years. No women around at all....not even on the staff. There was never a need, when the men could get along so well without them! When Ambrose's health starts to falter a bit, he is pushed to spend the cold, damp winters in a warmer climate. Imagine Philip's surprise when, one winter, Ambrose writes that he has...0 points

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Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier

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The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother's dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn's dark power. But never did Mary dream that she would become hopelessly ensnared in the vile, villainous schemes being hatched within its crumbling walls -- o...

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With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten&#8212a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not...

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The Birds and Other Stories (Virago Modern Classics) by Dame Daphne Du Maurier

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Tiddledeewinks I liked the Hichcock movie "The Birds" best! Check out my black and white movie classics at greatest-classic-movie-ever and CamilleVideoShowCase and also the great handsome actor RobertTaylor. Posted October 01, 2008

mulberry I've read the book, but haven't seen the moving. Going to have to give it a viewing! Posted July 15, 2008

Treasures-By-Brenda I have enjoyed the few Alfred Hitchcock movies that I have seen although that is a few rather than a lot! I had not heard of Rebecca until I found your lens. Your lens looks well put together; I wonder if lenses on specific movies do well in the rankings. Brenda Posted June 29, 2008

GrowWear This is an excellent lens! I read lots of du Maurier, didn't know about the movie. LOVED the movie. Ready to see it again! Posted June 04, 2008

ckennedy Oh, what a great lens! I fell in love with the book as a teenager and the movie is as much of a treat. Posted May 18, 2008

NancyOram I love Rebecca and watch it about once a year. It was hard to choose between Rebecca and Shadow of a Doubt for my favorite Hitchcock film. Thanks for a great lens. Posted May 17, 2008