Season 2: Episode 62 - ALFRED HITCHCOCK: Rebecca (1940)

Rebecca (1940)

 

Written by a team of writers and Alfred Hitchcock’s first American film would bring him to the attention of the Academy Awards for a total of nine awards.

 

The film today is notable for having a lesbian flirtation going on with Mrs Danvers which Hitchcock would put into the film which was not in the script.  The film was almost banned due to this but David O Selznick would push the film forward and eventually the Hayes board would back down for the film release.

 

The film starred Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, George Saunders and Leo G Carroll.  The film is a somewhat faithful adaption of the classic Daphne du Maurier and the first of three of her works filmed by Hitchcock.  This is also the first film to start the film noir movement in Hollywood.

 

Opening Credits (.20); Introduction (3.04); Forming the Plot (10.19); Commercial Break (23.25); Lights, Camera, Action (27.54); Epilogue (54.37); End Credits (56.34); Closing Credits (57.16)

 

Opening Credits:  Rebecca by Franz Waxman from the album Rebecca – The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Closing Credits: I’m Not That Girl – by Idina Menzel– Taken from the album Wicked – Original Broadway Album

 

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