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Rebecca (adapted from her novel by Daphne du Maurier; produced by Victor Payne-Jennings) reversed U.S. theatrical custom in two ways: the novel was made into a play after it had been made into a movie, and went to Broadway after it had toured the country. Unfortunately, its reverses do not stop there. On the stage, the well-known tale of the haunting influence of Maxim de Winter's dead first wife on himself (Bramwell Fletcher), his new bride (Diana Barrymore), his grim housekeeper (Florence Reed) and his great oppressive house casts only a faint and fitful spell...
...Frenchman's Creek," from Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name, isn't a bad yarn, but Paramount's production is a little too long-winded and self-conscious. Technicolor is brilliantly used, however, and largely compensates for the picture's weaknesses...
Frenchman's Creek (Paramount) is a minor masterpiece of mush. A color-drenched $4,000,000 cinemadaptation of Daphne du Maurier's best-seller laid in 17th-Century England (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942), it offers male cinemaddicts little for their money except innumerable coyly brazen veilings and half-unveilings of Joan Fontaine's Restoration bosom, and a startling scene in which Miss Fontaine, alone in a dress-parade nightgown, frisks and flops about on her marshmallowy bed like a titillated tarpon. But to judge by the gasps, oofs, titters and low moans of the audience which stuffed...
...does, there will be two good reasons: 1) Paramount, under the supervision of Designer Raoul Pene du Bois, has turned Miss du Maurier's novel into one of the most eye-drugging jobs of costuming and color on record; 2) the story disguises an essentially drab little suburban flirtation as high romance, retaining the most sure-fire features of both...
...deputy, Eisenhower gave him one of airborne's best: suave Lieut. General Frederick A. M. Browning, Britain's topmost airborne man, small-arms expert and husband of Novelist Daphne (Rebecca) du Maurier. What the airborne army's assignment would be was still something the Germans would like to know...