Rebecca (1940 film)

Rebecca is a 1940 American psychological thrillermystery film. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, it was his first American project, and his first film produced under contract with David O. Selznick. The films screenplay was a version by Joan Harrison and Robert E. Sherwood based on Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogans adaptation of Daphne du Mauriers 1938 novel Rebecca. The film was produced by Selznick and stars Laurence Olivier as the brooding aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as the young woman who becomes his second wife, with Judith Anderson and George Sanders.

A nave young woman Joan Fontaine, whose name is never mentioned, is in Monte Carlo working as a paid companion to Edythe Van Hopper Florence Bates when she meets the aristocratic but brooding widower Maximilian Maxim de Winter Laurence Olivier. They fall in love, and within two weeks they are married.She is now the second Mrs. de Winter Maxim takes her back to Manderley, his country house in Cornwall. The housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers Judith Anderson, is domineering and cold, and is obsessed with the beauty, intelligence and sophistication of the first Mrs. de Winter, the eponymous Rebecca, preserving her former bedroom as a shrine. Rebeccas socalled cousin, Jack Favell George Sanders, visits the house while Maxim is away. ........

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