1946
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Rebecca: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson. A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
- (147K)
- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1940-04-12
The film stars Laurence Olivier as the brooding, aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as the young, never-named woman who becomes his second wife, with Judith Anderson, George Sanders and Gladys Cooper in supporting roles. The film is a gothic tale shot in black-and-white.
On vacation in Monte Carlo, wealthy widower Maxim de Winter (Sir Laurence Olivier) meets a young woman who is working as a lady's companion to Mrs. Van Hopper (Florence Bates). They spend a good deal of time together and it leads to love and marriage.
Rebecca (1940) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The entire second unit crew that filmed the approach to Manderley in Del Monte, California, had to be hospitalized after they caught poison ivy. Casting Laurence Olivier in Rebecca gave Selznick a reason to let him accompany Vivien Leigh to the premiere of Gone with the Wind (1939) in Atlanta.
