- Based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier, this classic Alfred Hitchcock film, starring Lord Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, tells the tale of a shy young woman who falls in love with a much more wordly and wealthier man. She cannot believe her luck upon seeing the gorgeous and haunting beauty of Manderley......until she learns more about the brooding man she has married and of the life he...
| - The second Mrs. de Winter is a shy and naive young woman, besotted with charming and urbane Maxim de Winter. They meet and fall in love while vacationing on the Riviera, and after a speedy marriage, return to Maxim's vast English estate, Manderly. His wife is introduced to an army of servants who immediately, if subtly, display hostility towards her, as they all adored Rebecca, Max's first wife,...
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