Tag: Daphne du Maurier
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HITCHCOCK’S WOMEN: Fighting the Waves of the Past – Mrs de Winter in REBECCA (1940) – PART I
Returning with the latest instalment of our Hitchcock’s Women series, Rebecca McCallum dreams of Manderley again… In his adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca, Hitchcock channels the gothic and ghostly to maximum effect. When a young (and unnamed) companion (Joan Fontaine) meets and marries the brooding, melancholic and affluent Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) […]