Rebecca (novel)

Rebecca is a novel by prolific British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1938 and likely the author's best-known work.

Adaptations

Rebecca has been adapted several times. The most notable of these was the Academy Award winning 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film version Rebecca. The film (which starred Laurence Olivier as Maxim and Joan Fontaine as the Heroine) was based on the novel. The production code of the day required that if Maxim had murdered his wife, he would have to be punished for his crime, so the key turning point of the novel (i.e. the revelation that Maxim, in fact, murdered Rebecca) was altered so that it seemed Rebecca's death was accidental after all.

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Rebecca - Academy Award - Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca - Laurence Olivier - Joan Fontaine

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The film quickly became a classic and, at that time, was a major technical achievement in film-making.

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