Rebecca (1940)

Rebecca, Rebecca, Rebecca a demon if you will, the great unseen femme fatale. The great Joan Fontaine, I love her, her kind nature, innocence, beauty she is an all around wonderful human being and who can forget Laurence Olivier a great actor. Well I was transfixed when I watched Rebecca, no one could contact me for two hours. I was so mesmerized that I read up the back story and the behind the scenes which is a wonderful world of it's own, I will explain. Behind the scenes Laurence Olivier resented Joan Fontaine and was harsh and mean to her because he wanted his then girlfriend (Vivien Leigh) to get her part. This made Joan Fontaine shy around him so Alfred Hitchock saw this as an opportunity to add to the shyness of her character by telling Joan Fontaine that all of the cast and actors HATED her so that she would be shy and nervous and play her character better. This is a harsh thing to do but look at the end result, A MASTERPIECE.






Now a basic storyline: When a shy and nervous young woman marries a rich widow and moves into his mansion she is constantly haunted by the memory of his ex wife with the maid comparing them constantly and tormenting her. She soon finds a haunting and horrifying secret.

I rate Rebecca a 9 out of 10 WOOHOO