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|'''The Second Mrs. de Winter,''' her opening narration from both film and novel.}}
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.
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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