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[[File:Rebecca.jpg|frame|"You're overwrought, madam; I've opened a window for you."]]
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|'''The Second Mrs. de Winter,''' her opening narration from both film and novel.}}
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.
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...then they find the remains of a boat...
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* [[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.''
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* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: The second Mrs. de Winter keeps imagining herself as the heroine of a conventional romance novel, instead of a gothic romance.
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