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It became an Oscar-winning Hollywood film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, a play presented in London and on Broadway, a stage musical and even an opera.Ī new film version of Rebecca premieres tomorrow on Netflix, starring Hollywood's Armie Hammer as Maxim and Lily James as the second Mrs de Winter (pictured)Īnd now, a new film version premieres tomorrow on Netflix, starring Hollywood's Armie Hammer as Maxim, the owner of Manderley, Downton Abbey's Lily James as the second Mrs de Winter (haunted and undermined by the late Rebecca) and Dame Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs Danvers, Manderley's sinister housekeeper. In 2017, it was voted the UK's favourite book of the past 225 years. In the 82 years since Rebecca was published, it has never been out of print, selling millions of copies in many languages. Then newly widowed, Daphne, I learnt, was deeply jealous of a society beauty with whom her husband Tommy had been in love - and to whom he had even been engaged.Īnd jealousy, too, was at the root of the most traumatic relationship of her life: her love-hate affair with her father. People might assume she meant the jealousy of the book's second Mrs de Winter, constantly undermined by her beautiful and accomplished predecessor Rebecca, Maxim de Winter's late first wife.īut during my visit to Menabilly 55 years ago, Daphne revealed for the first time that it was jealousy of a far more personal nature: her own.
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And jealousy, too, was at the root of the most traumatic relationship of her life: her love-hate affair with her father (pictured together)
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