"Rebecca (1940 film) Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock's first American project, and his first film under contract with producer David O. Selznick. The screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, and adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan, were based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. The film stars Laurence Olivier as the brooding, aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as the young woman who becomes his second wife, with Judith Anderson and George Sanders in supporting roles. The film"
"lucky one, returning like a wayward son to Manderley, I'd never be the same..."". Steve Hackett included a song entitled ""Rebecca,"" inspired by the novel, on his album ""To Watch the Storms"". In 2013, Devon watchmakers Du Maurier Watches, founded by the grandson of Daphne du Maurier, released a limited edition collection of two watches inspired by the characters from the novel – The Rebecca and The Maxim. Rebecca (novel) Rebecca is a Gothic novel by English author Dame Daphne du Maurier. A best-seller, ""Rebecca"" sold 2,829,313 copies between its publication in 1938 and 1965, and the book has never"
"Mrs. Danvers Mrs. Danvers (whose first name is never given) is the main antagonist of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel ""Rebecca"". Danvers is the head housekeeper at Manderley, the stately manor belonging to the wealthy Maximillian ""Maxim"" de Winter, where he once lived with his first wife, the eponymous Rebecca. Nicknamed ""Danny"" by Rebecca, Mrs. Danvers was Rebecca's maid as a child and following the death of her previous mistress, persecutes the new Mrs. de Winter. Danvers resents the new Mrs. de Winter, convinced she is trying to ""take Rebecca's place"" despite the two women never meeting and being nothing"
"Rebecca (musical) Rebecca is a German-language musical based on the novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. It was written by Michael Kunze (book and lyrics) and Sylvester Levay (music), the authors of the musicals ""Elisabeth"", ""Mozart!"" and ""Marie Antoinette"". The plot, which adheres closely to the original novel, revolves around wealthy Maxim DeWinter, his naïve new wife, and Mrs. Danvers, the manipulative housekeeper of DeWinter's Cornish estate Manderley. Mrs. Danvers resents the new wife's intrusion and persuades the new wife that she is an unworthy replacement for the first Mrs. DeWinter, the glamorous and mysterious Rebecca, who"
"glamorous, dark-haired Jan Ricardo. The suspicion that Tommy remained attracted to Ricardo haunted Daphne."" In ""The Rebecca Notebook"" of 1981, du Maurier ""'remembered' Rebecca's gestation … Seeds began to drop. A beautiful home... a first wife... jealousy, a wreck, perhaps at sea, near to the house... But something terrible would have to happen, I did not know what..."" She wrote in her notes prior to writing: 'I want to build up the character of the first [wife] in the mind of the second... until wife 2 is haunted day and night... a tragedy is looming very close and CRASH! BANG!"
"My Cousin Rachel My Cousin Rachel is a novel by British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951. Like the earlier ""Rebecca"", it is a mystery-romance, set primarily on a large estate in Cornwall. The story has its origins in a portrait of Rachel Carew at Antony House in Cornwall, which du Maurier saw and took as inspiration. Ambrose Ashley is the owner of a large country estate on the Cornish coast and has been guardian to his orphaned cousin Philip since he was three years old. On Sundays, Philip's godfather, Nick Kendall, and his daughter Louise come to lunch"
"of his heroic action. For unrevealed reasons, they can never have children. Having lost Manderley and choosing not to rebuild it, Mr. and Mrs. de Winter now live a quiet life in a small hotel, seemingly free of Rebecca's hold. In the 1940 film adaptation of the Du Maurier novel directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the character of Rebecca is never seen. In the miniseries, she is shown from behind, and there are frequent flashes of her eyes and mouth (courtesy of Lucy Cohu), although her full face is never revealed. The second Mrs. de Winter is played by Emilia Fox,"
"the novel takes place. My Cousin Rachel My Cousin Rachel is a novel by British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951. Like the earlier ""Rebecca"", it is a mystery-romance, set primarily on a large estate in Cornwall. The story has its origins in a portrait of Rachel Carew at Antony House in Cornwall, which du Maurier saw and took as inspiration. Ambrose Ashley is the owner of a large country estate on the Cornish coast and has been guardian to his orphaned cousin Philip since he was three years old. On Sundays, Philip's godfather, Nick Kendall, and his daughter"
"Rebecca (given name) Rebecca or Rebekah (Hebrew: רִבְקָה (""Rivkah"")) is a feminine given name originating from the Hebrew language. The name comes from the verb רבק (""rbq""), meaning ""to tie firmly""; Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names and the NOBS Study Bible Name List suggest the name means ""snare"", ""noose"", ""tied up"", ""secured"", and even ""beautifully ensnaring"". W. F. Albright held that it meant ""soil, earth"". Rebecca was the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau in the Hebrew Bible. The Latin Vulgate uses the spelling Rebecca exclusively and it is followed by (""ex. gr."") Wycliffe"
"has become mistress of Manderley, senses an atmosphere of doom about it, due to the death of Max's first wife (the titular Rebecca), and it is hinted that she haunts the estate. Childhood visits to Milton Hall, Cambridgeshire, home of the Fitzwilliam family, influenced the descriptions of Manderley, especially the interior. She told the 10th Earl Fitzwilliam in a letter that when she wrote ""Rebecca"" 20 years later, the interior of Manderley was based on her recollection of the rooms and 'big house feel' of Milton in the First World War. The adult du Maurier's Cornish home near Fowey, called"
"by Sir Thomas Dale, Reverend Alexander Whitaker, and John Rolfe to convert her to Christianity and teach her English manners. Eventually, she was baptized and given the name Rebecca. During this time, the Mattaponi say she had anxiety and sank into a deep depression. She became fearful and withdrawn, eventually escalating into having a nervous breakdown. Because of this, the English requested that her eldest sister, Mattachanna, stay with her and be her caretaker in captivity. To her sister, Pocahontas confided that she was raped. The book emphasizes this fact. It is believed that Mattachanna came to her during her"
"extensive evidence than it has so far admitted, and have been accused of instigating a cover-up. Rebecca was born on 11 March 1987 in Countess of Chester Hospital, Chester, England. She lived in Chester with her parents, sister Rachael and two foster brothers. She graduated from Chester Catholic High School. In her youth, she also worked at the Chester Zoo, where other relatives had worked. A memorial bench to her grandparents Kevin and Dolores is on the zoo grounds. She joined the British Army cadets in her teens and attended Plymouth University at Exeter, where she studied sports science. Later"
"Mourning Ruby Mourning Ruby is the eighth novel by Helen Dunmore. Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italian restaurant when she was two years old. She is adopted by foster parents and thirty years later gets married to Adam, a consultant neonatologist dealing with premature babies. She gives birth to Ruby and starts a new life for herself and her small family. But a tragedy suddenly upsets the calm order of her life and changes its course forever. The novel traces the harrowing life of Rebecca with several interesting temporal juxtapositions and"
"6, 1972, in Berkeley, California. Her mother, Elizabeth Romijn (née Kuizenga), is a community college instructor of English as a Second Language (ESL) and textbook author. Rebecca's father, Jaap Romijn, is a custom furniture maker. Her father is a native of Barneveld, the Netherlands, while her mother is an American of Dutch and English ancestry. Her mother met Rebecca's father as a teenager while living in the Netherlands on a student exchange program. Romijn's maternal grandfather, Henry Bernard Kuizenga, was a Presbyterian minister and seminary professor. On ""The Ellen DeGeneres Show"", when questioned about always being glamorous and beautiful, Romijn"
"he is not saying ""down in the dark"", but ""Dahninaderke"". His dreams will lead Tom to the identity of the killer and solve his nightmares. Rebecca Mackenson is Cory's mother. Rebecca is an overprotective mother who has trouble adjusting to the idea that her son is growing up. Rebecca does not want Cory to go camping on his own, but finally relents when her husband agrees to it. Rebecca is a force in her son's life, not always the one to say no but occasionally the one who encourages her son. When the Lady invites Cory to visit her, Rebecca"
"deep into the book."" Mourning Ruby Mourning Ruby is the eighth novel by Helen Dunmore. Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italian restaurant when she was two years old. She is adopted by foster parents and thirty years later gets married to Adam, a consultant neonatologist dealing with premature babies. She gives birth to Ruby and starts a new life for herself and her small family. But a tragedy suddenly upsets the calm order of her life and changes its course forever. The novel traces the harrowing life of Rebecca with several"
"to each-other. Rebecca gets kidnapped by two men, this was later revealed to have been orchestrated by Rebecca and her former boyfriend. Rebecca returns to Clifford and explained her plans all along to fake her death and stop his driver from following by poisoning him. After listening and seeing the genuineness of her plea, Clifford accepts her while they both await the newly arrived rescue team to the forest. Rebecca (2016 film) Rebecca is a 2016 Ghana-Nigeria film directed by Shirley Frimpong-Manso, and starring Yvonne Okoro and Joseph Benjamin. According to Manso, the film was released first in London, before"
"Rebecca (2016 film) Rebecca is a 2016 Ghana-Nigeria film directed by Shirley Frimpong-Manso, and starring Yvonne Okoro and Joseph Benjamin. According to Manso, the film was released first in London, before Ghana due to the economic situation of the country causing reduced patronage for films. The film is the second two cast film that features Nigerian born actress Yvonne Okoro. The film begins with Clifford (Joseph Benjamin) and Rebecca(Yvonne Okoro) lost in the forest after their vehicle required a repair on their way from. It was revealed that Rebecca was betrothed to Clifford since their childhood. While Rebecca remained silent"
"from the south named Warren Johnson and Ruby Lincoln; after Warren's death Ruby married a man with the surname Sanbourne and the two adopted a daughter named Liz. Rebecca Hotchkiss's maiden name in the book is ""Osburn"" while on the show it said she is descended from a long line of ""Osborn"" women. Rebecca's maiden name has never been stated on-air. Hidden Passions Hidden Passions: Secrets from the Diaries of Tabitha Lenox is a tie-in novelization released by HarperEntertainment in 2001, loosely based on the NBC soap opera, ""Passions"". It delved into the backstories of several prominent characters on the"
"their relations in England. When she was still a young girl, she was raped by a boy in their French village, teaching her to mistrust, loathe, and manipulate men, but also to be self-sufficient, assertive, and strong in her own right. At the end, taking partial inspiration from Rebecca's more positive ideals, Ellie Julyan rejects the conventionality of her bucolic country life to pursue her own dreams and ambitions, while Terence Gray reconciles with his own identity and opens himself to love. Rebecca's Tale Rebecca's Tale is a 2001 novel by British author Sally Beauman. The book is a sequel"
"been no spy, and information went to the Germans due to faulty radio security. Like Follett's story, Deighton's is also based on historical fact. The Key to Rebecca The Key to Rebecca is a novel by the British author Ken Follett. Published in 1980 by Pan Books (), it was a best-seller that achieved popularity in the United Kingdom and worldwide. The code mentioned in the title is an intended throwback from Follett to Daphne du Maurier's famed suspense novel ""Rebecca"". While undertaking research for his best-selling novel ""Eye of the Needle"", Follett had discovered the true story of the"
"At urging, she writes to Guy about the child, but gets no response. Eventually, Rebecca realises she has been a fool, and a week after giving birth to Daniel, marries Charlie. Daphne is a member of the upper classes in England, though she went to school with Rebecca Salmon. She hardly remembers her, except that she gave a book of art to her and got free cream buns from her father. However, when approached by Rebecca about sharing rooms, she takes delight in finding out that Rebecca's mother was worried about her rather than the opposite. She took Rebecca in"
"murder. In jail, Rebecca changes. Sexual abuse and a tough environment shape her into a harder person. It is in jail that Rebecca takes the nickname Legs. She leaves jail thanks to Edwards Reiser, an entrepreneur founder of the Alfa Agency. Reiser was on the lookout for special agent material and manages to get Legs out of jail on condition of joining his agency. At Alfa, Legs will always be temperamental and difficult to deal with, but fair. However, as the story runs we learn that Legs has more depth. She quickly becomes Nathan Never's best friend within the agency."
"a free woman of mixed European and African descent who lived on the island of St. Thomas during the 1730s, she joined the movement to convert African slaves to Christianity. She became one of the first ordained African American women in Western Christianity. Sources are unclear as to the location or circumstances of Rebecca’s birth, but some note that she was originally kidnapped from Antigua. She was then sold to a planter on St. Thomas named Lucas van Beverhout, who put her to work in his house as a servant and taught her the Christianity of the Reformed Church. Shortly"
"Daphne du Maurier Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright. Although she is classed as a romantic novelist, her stories have been described as ""moody and resonant"" with overtones of the paranormal. Her bestselling works were not at first taken seriously by critics, but have since earned an enduring reputation for narrative craft. Many have been successfully adapted into films, including the novels ""Rebecca"", ""My Cousin Rachel"", and ""Jamaica Inn"", and the short stories ""The Birds"" and ""Don't Look Now/Not After Midnight"". Du Maurier spent much of"
"Rebecca Hotchkiss Rebecca Hotchkiss is a fictional character on the NBC/DirecTV daytime drama, ""Passions"". Rebecca has been played by both Maureen McCormick (July 5 to August 17, 2000) and Andrea Evans (September 1, 2000 to August 7, 2008), neither of whom was ever on contract. The character's maiden name has never been revealed, although Tabitha has referred to Rebecca being an Osborn woman. Although now divorced from both Jonathan and Julian, Rebecca uses the surname Hotchkiss Crane. Rebecca grew up as a shy, conservative young woman bathed in riches, and beauty, and was descended from a wealthy respected family. However,"
"in the musical ""The Greatest Showman"" and also had supporting parts in the comedy-drama ""Florence Foster Jenkins"" and the thriller ""The Girl on the Train"" (both 2016). Ferguson was born in Stockholm and grew up in Vasastan district in central Stockholm. Her mother, Rosemary Ferguson, is English, and moved from Britain to Sweden at the age of 25. Rebecca's father is Swedish. Her maternal grandmother is from Northern Ireland, and her maternal grandfather is Scottish. Rebecca took her mother's surname as her stage name. She attended an English-speaking school in Sweden and was raised bilingual, speaking Swedish and English. From"
"named Hazel Jones one afternoon in the woods nearby Chatauqua Falls, New York in the fall of 1959. Over 20 years later, Rebecca finds out that the man who approached her is a serial killer. In a secondary plot, Rebecca's parents escape from the Nazis in 1936, foreseeing the oncoming Holocaust; Rebecca is born in the boat crossing over. When Rebecca is 13, her father, Jacob Schwart, who has lost his intellectual dreams and has become a gravedigger and cemetery caretaker in Milburn, abruptly kills her mother, Anna, and nearly kills Rebecca, before committing suicide. At the time of the"
"delivered her message and died on the return journey. Deborah (Genesis) Deborah ( ""Deborah"") is the name of the nurse of Rebecca (Genesis 35:8). She is first mentioned by name in the Torah when she dies in a place called Alon Bachot, and is buried by Jacob, who is returning with his large family to Canaan. According to Rashi, Deborah was sent by Laban to care for his sister Rebecca when the latter went to marry Isaac (Genesis 24:59). After Jacob had been away from home for 22 years, Rebecca dispatched her loyal nurse to tell Jacob that it was"
"the surrounding area, including the district near Manderley. The book is narrated in the first person in the style of du Maurier; however, unlike the original book, the narrator changes with each of the four sections. Part 1 is told from the perspective of the septuagenarian Colonel Julyan, who had led the initial inquests into Rebecca’s death. Part 2 is told by Terence Gray, an original character, whose on-going investigations are driven by a mystery from his own past. Part 3 is an extract from a journal kept by Rebecca, detailing the events of her early life. The final part"
"beginning of the novel, he has been dead for three years and the family is barely scraping by. Rebecca's stay with her aunt is a chance to improve her opportunities in life and to ease the strain on her family's budget, with one less mouth to feed. Despite her impoverished background, Rebecca is imaginative and charming. She often composes little poems and songs to express her feelings or to amuse her younger brothers and sisters. It is she who named their farm ""Sunnybrook"". Miranda and Jane had wanted Hannah, the eldest sister, due to her pragmatic nature and household skills,"
"Cindy Fisher (actress) Cindy Fisher (born in 1960) is an American stage, film and television actress. She is probably best known for the role of Rebecca in the soap opera ""The Young and the Restless"", in which she starred in early 1980s. During the show she met actor Doug Davidson, who became her husband in 1984. They have two children, Calyssa and Caden. After ""The Young and the Restless"" she starred in several films and television-films, including leading roles in the drama film ""Liar's Moon"" (1982), alongside Matt Dillon, and in the TV-movie ""Intimate Agony"" (1983), one of the first"
"off against Hazmat and then fights Cammi soon after. Cammi gives her the nickname Death Locket. Throughout the first day, Death Locket remembers the past events that led to her origins. She is revealed to be Rebecca Ryker, the daughter of Harlan Ryker. After being maimed in an explosion that killed her mother and brother, Rebecca was rebuilt using the Deathlok technology that her father developed. She joins the Braddock Academy group (consisting of Apex, Kid Briton, Anachronism, Bloodstone and Nara). Juston is attacked by an unidentified cybernetic creature and the Sentinel he is working on folds around him apparently"