United States
1940
130 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
English
135
“Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” Rebecca’s haunting opening line conjures the entirety of Hitchcock’s romantic, suspenseful, 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 first 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 collaboration 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).
| "I" | Joan Fontaine |
| Maxim de Winter | Laurence Olivier |
| Jack Favell | George Sanders |
| Mrs. Danvers | Judith Anderson |
| Beatrice Lacy | Gladys Cooper |
| Giles Lacy | Nigel Bruce |
| Frank Crawley | Reginald Denny |
| Colonel Julyan | C. Aubrey Smith |
| The coroner | Melville Cooper |
| Mrs. Van Hopper | Florence Bates |
| Director | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Producer | David O. Selznick |
| Screenplay | Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison |
| Adaptation by | Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan |
| Cinematography | George Barnes |
| Special effects | Jack Cosgrove |
| Music | Franz Waxman |
| Associate (music) | Lou Forbes |
| Art direction | Lyle Wheeler |
| Interiors designed by | Joseph B. Platt |
| Interior decoration by | Howard Bristol |
| Supervising film editor | Hal C. Kern |
| Associate film editor | James E. Newcom |
| Scenario assistant | Barbara Keon |
| Recordist | Jack Noyes |
| Assistant director | Edmond Bernoudy |
| Editing | W. Donn Hayes |
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Rebecca marks the most decisive single step both in Hitchcock’s career and aesthetic evolution: the move to America, the first time working under (and intermittently struggling against) a powerful and dominating producer, the liberating extravagance of a budget undreamed of in British . . .
As David O. Selznick put Gone with the Wind into production in the late 1930s, he realized that he needed help with other pictures on the studio schedule. He had soon hired a rotund Englishman as director and producer, but Rebecca—the first of four collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock—was . . .
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