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Chief witnesses of the Bergman suffering are Joseph Gotten, her surly husband, and Michael Wilding, a foppish gallant who plays her father confessor. The evil housekeeper, a stock character made popular by Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, is well played by Margaret Leighton...
Gentler and more elegant were the satires of such famed Victorian humorists as George du Maurier and Sir John Tenniel. Their Punch drawings of crinolined damsels and young men in cutaways had quietly chided a more prosperous and conservative...
What is so damned comical about one of Jean Simmons' admirers asking her for a pic ture of her feet? . . . Du Maurier in his classic Trilby devoted page after page to descriptions of Trilby's beautiful feet. In the novels of such romantics as Théophile Gautier, Restif de la Bretonne, Pierre Louÿs, Sacher-Masoch and Emile Zola, the heroine's feet are always lovely, frequently bare, and often kissed by the hero...
Hungry Hill (Rank; Prestige), at its clearest, appears to be a plea for the abolition of the 19th Century. Everything else about this British cinemadaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel is equally impossible. It begins in Ireland atop a large rocky lump of earth (see title) which a greedy capitalist named Brodrick is determined to excavate. A member of the lower classes prophesies that "woe" and "the end of everything green and beautiful" will betide if the hill is mined for copper. For three generations (roughly 90 minutes), flunkeys announce woe more often than dinner ("There...
Rebecca, the haunting first wife in Novelist Daphne du Maurier's chilling best-seller (and movie), was haunting Novelist du Maurier. Six years after she was charged with lifting the plot from a Brazilian novelist (who later dropped the suit), Writer du Maurier had to defend herself against the same charge by a U.S. writer. In a Manhattan court, the son of the late Edwina Levin MacDonald (who died after she brought suit) charged that Rebecca was a steal from 1) his mother's novel, Blind Windows, 2) her short story, I Planned to Murder My Husband...