REBECCA

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: 'LAST NIGHT, I DREAMT I WENT TO MANDERLEY AGAIN.'; ; Rebecca's haunting opening line conjures the entirety of Alfred Hitchcock's romantic, suspensful, elegant film. A young woman (Joan Fontaine) believes her every dream has come true when her whirlwind romance with the dashing Maxim de Winter, culminates in marriage. But she soon realizes that Rebecca, the late Mrs. de Winter, haunts both the temperamental, brooding Maxim and the de Winter mansion, Manderley. In order for Maxim and the new Mrs. de Winter to have a future, Rebecca's spell must be broken and the mystery of her violent death unraveled. The first collaberation between producer David O. Selznick and Hitchcock, Rebecca was adapted from Daphne du Maurier's popular novel and won the 1940 Academy Award for Best Picture and Cinematography (Black and White)
• Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, Gladys Cooper, Florence Bates, Melville Cooper, Leo G. Carroll, Leonard Carey, Lumsden Hare, Edward Fielding, Philip Winter, Forrester Harvey, Billy Bevan, Egon Brecher, Gino Corrado, Alfred Hitchcock, Leyland Hodgson, Alphonse Martell, William H. O'Brien, Ronald R. Rondell, Daphne Du Maurier, Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison, Philip MacDonald, Michael Hogan
• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Runtime: 2:10
• Media Format: Movie