Rebecca, if looked at from a certain point of view, is how expecting too much out of a new edition can be a road to ruin. The loyal servant Mrs.
Danvers immediately dismisses the second Mrs. de Winter, knowing she could never measure up to the first. This (plus a lot of other shenanigans) leads to some fiery complications in this well-loved British gothic tale.And yet despite the warning, I found myself falling into this trap.
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's extremely successful 1938 novel, was brought to the screen by Alfred Hitchcock (he of the cinematic term "Hitchcockian") in 1940, and it starred Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, and Judith Anderson.
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