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Rebecca

""Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...""

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NR 1940 · 2h 10m
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Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

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Apr 12, 1940
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Jan 9, 1998
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Selznick International Pictures
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Reflections on the Legacy of Rebecca
Quotes about Rebecca * {{cite journal|title=My favourite Hitchcock: Rebecca|journal=The Guardian|date=7 August 2012|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/aug/07/my-favourite-alfred-hitchcock-rebecca}}
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Haunting Legacy of Rebecca's Influence
Quotes about Rebecca Rebecca is a film about abusive relationships, and the way power might shift within them – and, most unusually, even for its time – its ] is the worst of the abusers. The romantic might view ]'s {{w|Rebecca (novel)#Principal characters|Max de Winter}} as someone haunted by his past; the realist would see him as someone haunted only by his inability to control his past, specifically his titular deceased wife, and so he alights upon {{w|Joan Fontaine}}'s gauche, clumsy (and nameless) ]'s companion as a wife who will give him no trouble. ...Rebecca was one of three films ] adapted from stories by ], and much the most successful. Du Maurier had been distressed by the liberties he took with {{w|Jamaica Inn (novel)|Jamaica Inn}}; {{w|The Birds (story)|The Birds}} suffered in being transformed from a perfect, ever-tightening noose of a short story set in ] into an expansive movie set on the California coast. Rebeccas near fidelity is owed to {{w|David O. Selznick|Selznick}}, who was "shocked and disappointed beyond words" at Hitchcock's first treatment of the story and told the director: "We bought {{w|Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca}} and we intend to make Rebecca.
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