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Mrs. Danvers is the main antagonist of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca.Danvers is the head housekeeper at Manderley, the stately manor belonging to the wealthy Maximillian "Maxim" de Winter, where he once lived with his first wife, Rebecca, whom she had adored obsessively.
Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel by the English author Daphne du Maurier.It depicts an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower, before discovering that both he and his household are haunted by the memory of his late first wife, the title character.
Rebecca won the Film Daily year-end poll of 546 critics nationwide naming the best films of 1940. [22] Rebecca mosaic commissioned in 2001 in the London Underground. Rebecca was the opening film at the 1st Berlin International Film Festival in 1951. [23] The Guardian called it "one of Hitchcock's creepiest, most oppressive films". [24]
Trailer for Rebecca (1940) Hitchcock approached American cinema cautiously; his first American film was set in England in which the "Americanness" of the characters was incidental: [128] Rebecca (1940) was set in a Hollywood version of England's Cornwall and based on a novel by English novelist Daphne du Maurier. Selznick insisted on a faithful ...
He won once, for his work on the Alfred Hitchcock film Rebecca (1940). "Barnes’ photographic interpretation of Rebecca is the sort of thing to which his fellow cinematographers may point, as indeed they did in bestowing upon it the industry's premiere Award, as a complete example of what truly great camerawork can mean to a production". [1]
A "Manderley Castle" features in one of the Anno Dracula books by Kim Newman. Danish film director Lars von Trier 's 2005 film Manderlay is set in a country estate with a large domestic staff. In Stephen King 's 1998 novel, Bag of Bones , "Manderley" is a semi-isolated lake house in Maine, identified with Sara Laughs, in the dreams of the main ...
Part 1 is told from the perspective of the septuagenarian Colonel Julyan, who had led the initial inquests into Rebecca's death. Part 2 is told by Terence Gray, an original character, whose on-going investigations are driven by a mystery from his own past. Part 3 is an extract from a journal kept by Rebecca, detailing the events of her early life.
The Years Between is a play by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, better known as a novelist and particularly as the author of Rebecca (which she had adapted for the London stage in 1940). This is one of two original plays that she wrote. The other is September Tide (1948).