Rebecca
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Writer: Daphne Du Maurier; Philip MacDonald
- Producer: David O. Selznick
CGiii Comment
It won 2 Oscars - best film and cinematography...and, Mrs Danvers is the epitome of delicious vileness.
Stunning.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A shy ladies' companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year before. The second Mrs. de Winter clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley.
Cast & Characters
Laurence Olivier as 'Maxim' de Winter;
Joan Fontaine as The Second Mrs. de Winter;
George Sanders as Jack Favell;
Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers;
Nigel Bruce as Major Giles Lacy;
Reginald Denny as Frank Crawley;
C. Aubrey Smith as Colonel Julyan;
Gladys Cooper as Beatrice Lacy;
Florence Bates as Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper;
Melville Cooper as Coroner;
Leo G. Carroll as Dr. Baker;
Leonard Carey as Ben;
Lumsden Hare as Tabbs;
Edward Fielding as Frith;
Forrester Harvey as Chalcroft