Word: rebecca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study of Mrs. Sibyl Jardine, who lived in an old house set on a round hill surrounded by beeches and birch trees. Mrs. Jardine was a mystery. She fascinated children and worried their parents. The Ballad and the Source begins when she invites her neighbors' daughters, Jess and Rebecca, to pick primroses and have...
...diamonds and emeralds on her withered hands. When she said, "I must kiss you, because I loved your grandmother," the children reflected that no one said such things in their family. When she told them that their father was the handsomest man she had ever seen, ten-year-old Rebecca asked guilelessly, "Do you wish you had married him instead...
...Rebecca Welles, six-week-old daughter of Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles (see PRESS), showed signs of having inherited her parents' camera appeal, did some photogenic cooing at her mother...
...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...
Joan Fontaine, wistful, heartwarming, Oscar-winning Hollywood tragedienne, gave notice that she was through with "tearjerker" roles (Rebecca, The Constant Nymph), would turn gay, beginning with her new picture, The Affairs of Susan. Said she: "I was the Sad Sack of the screen. . . . From now on . . . no more tears...