Rebecca
1940 film by Alfred Hitchcock · Released 1940
Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock's first American project, and his first film under contract with producer David O. Selznick. The screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, and adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan, were based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. The film stars Laurence Olivier as the brooding, aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as the young, never-named woman who becomes his second wife, with Judith Anderson, George Sanders and Gladys Cooper in supporting roles.
Cast ages at release (1940)
- Laurence Olivier, as George Fortescue Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter: 32–33
- Joan Fontaine, as the second Mrs: 22–23
- Judith Anderson, as Mrs: 42–43
- George Sanders, as Jack Favell: 33–34
- Nigel Bruce, as Major Giles Lacy: 44–45
- Gladys Cooper, as Beatrice Lacy: 51–52
- Reginald Denny, as Frank Crawley: 48–49
- C. Aubrey Smith, as Colonel Julyan: 76–77
- Florence Bates, as Mrs: 51–52
- Leo G. Carroll, as Dr. Baker: 53–54
- Melville Cooper, as coroner at trial: 43–44
- Forrester Harvey, as Chalcroft: 55–56
- Leonard Carey, as Ben: 52–53
- Lumsden Hare, as Mr. Tabbs: 65–66
- Alfred Hitchcock: 40–41
- Edward Fielding, as Frith: 64–65