Synopsis
When on holiday, a young, timid ladies' companion (
Joan Fontaine) meets handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter (
Laurence Olivier) whose wife Rebecca has recently died in a boating accident. The two fall in love and marry. However, her joy is short lived when she returns to the de Winter estate and soon discovers that Rebecca still has a strange, unearthly hold over everyone there.
Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of
Daphne Du Maurier's novel won Best Picture award at the 1940 Academy Awards.
