"Rebecca" (1940)
"Rebecca" (1940)
Selznick International Pictures
A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife. - An unnamed naïve young woman (Joan Fontaine) is in Monte Carlo working as a paid companion to Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates) when she meets the aristocratic widower Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter (Laurence Olivier). They fall in love, and within two weeks they are married. The young woman is now the second "Mrs. de Winter."
Genre': Drama, Mystery, Romance
Release date: April 12, 1940 (US)
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison, Adaptation: Philip MacDonald, Michael Hogan
Based on: "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Music: Franz Waxman
Cinematography: George Barnes
Edited by: W. Donn Hayes
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, Gladys Cooper, Florence Bates
Distributed by: United Artists
Awards
- Best Picture
- Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
* © 1940 - 20th Century Fox