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Line 1: {{work\|w:wppage=Rebecca (novel)}} ~~[[Category:~~{{Multiple Works Need Separate Pages]]}}▼ [[File:Rebecca.jpg\|frame\|"You're overwrought, madam; I've opened a window for you."]] Line 5 ⟶ 6: \|'''The Second Mrs. de Winter,''' her opening narration from both film and novel.}} A'''''Rebecca''''' is a 1938 novel written by Daphne du Maurier (who also wrote the story that became ''[[The Birds]]''). In 1940, [[Alfred Hitchcock]] directed the film version, his first American project, which won the [[Academy Award\|Oscar]] for Best Picture (though, for the first of many times, Hitchcock failed to win for it - however, the movie was named to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2018). A musical version debuted in Vienna, Austria in 2006, with a projected Toronto premiere in 2010. A newer adaptation, produced by [[Netflix]], premiered in 2020. While working in Monte Carlo as the companion for the wealthy Mrs. Van Hopper, our young unnamed heroine meets the much wealthier Maxim de Winter: a moody, inscrutable widower presumed still to be in deep mourning for his late wife, the beautiful Rebecca, tragically drowned in a boating accident. Thus no-one is more surprised than the shy, gauche little companion when Maxim not only seems attracted to her but impetuously proposes they wed there and then. Line 15 ⟶ 16: ...then they find the remains of a boat... ~~----~~ {{tropelist}} * [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: The role of the creepy "skull's face" Mrs. Danvers was created for the musical by [http://www.musicalsessen.de/wb/media/Autogrammkarten/Rebecca/Wietske-van-Tongeren-Uwe-Kroeger-Susan-Rigvava-Dumas.jpg Susan Rigvava-Dumas]{{Dead link}}. ''Yow.'' Line 85 ⟶ 86: * [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: The second Mrs. de Winter keeps imagining herself as the heroine of a conventional romance novel, instead of a gothic romance. {{reflist}}▼ '''Navboxes for the film:'''▼ [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ {{Academy Award Best Picture}}▼ {{AFI's 100 Years 100 Heroes and Villains}}▼ '''Navboxes for the novel:''' {{The Big Read}} {{Reader's Digest 56 Best Horror Books of All Time}} ▲'''Navboxes for the film:''' ▲{{reflist}} ▲{{Academy Award Best Picture}} ▲[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] ▲{{AFI's 100 Years 100 Heroes and Villains}} ~~[[Category:Literature]]~~ [[Category:Films of the 1940s]] [[Category:The Criterion Collection]] [[Category:The Criterion Collection (LaserDisc)]] [[Category:Films Based on Novels]] [[Category:Works by Alfred Hitchcock]] ▲[[Category:Multiple Works Need Separate Pages]] [[Category:The Great American Read]] [[Category:National Film Registry]]