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This article is from the Movie Trivia,
by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions
by others.
531 Rebecca (1940)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): walking past a phone booth just after
George Sanders makes a call in the final part of the movie.
- The first film Hitchcock made in Hollywood and the only one that won a
best picture Oscar.
- Just as in the original novel, Mrs. de Winter has no first name.
- Over 20 actors were tested for the role of Mrs. de Winter, eventually going
to newcomer 'Joan Fontaine' (qv). One of them was 'Vivien Leigh' (qv), who
'Laurence Olivier' (qv) was pressing for, as they were a couple at the time.
- Fontaine was treated with disdain by the rest of the British cast. Olivier
was particularly harsh, saying to Hitchcock at one point, ``Fontaine's
horrible, ole boy!''.
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