Word: rebecca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unpleasant surprise: majestic Judith Anderson (the weird housekeeper of Rebecca) cast by one of Hollywood's amazing artistic lapses as a Cantor stooge...
...cast her in The Women, where she made her first strike. Later Selznick tested her for Rebecca. Much to everybody's surprise, he gave her the handsome part...
Last week Joan Fontaine became Joan Fontaine. U. S. cinemaddicts who saw Rebecca did not recognize Cinemactress Fontaine at first as gracious, wistful, haunting Mrs. de Winter. When they did, hats went way off to Director Hitchcock's Pygmalion stunt...
Last week Husband Aherne had graver matters on his mind. With her career in pictures assured by Rebecca, and Frank Lloyd waiting to star her in Columbia's The Tree of Liberty, Cinemactress Fontaine was gravely ill in a Los Angeles hospital...
...camera reveals in the still life of the room-Rebecca's ash tray still heaped with cigarette stubs, the over-plump cushions of her flowered couch-the real life of the woman which her husband is revealing for the first time to another person. As Olivier pauses, the cobwebbed telephone shrills like a police siren in the silence; scene and story reach their star-shell denouement...