She again encounters the aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter, looking much more debonair. Later, at Monte Carlo on the French Riviera, the same young woman is staying with her pompous old traveling companion, Mrs. A young woman shouts at him to stop him in his tracks, but he curtly asks her to walk on. Maxim de Winter stands at a cliff edge, seemingly contemplating jumping. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.' The story is also a successful musical production. It won two awards Best Picture, and Best Cinematography, becoming the only film directed by Hitchcock to win the former award. It received eleven nominations at the 13th Academy Awards, more than any other film that year. Rebecca was theatrically released on April 12, 1940, to critical and commercial success.

Her reputation and recollections of her, however, are a constant presence in the lives of Maxim, his new wife and the creepy housekeeper Mrs. Maxim de Winter's first wife Rebecca, who died before the events of the film, is never seen.

The film is a gothic tale shot in black-and-white. 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, George Sanders and Gladys Cooper in supporting roles. 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. It was Hitchcock's first American project, and his first film under contract with producer David O. Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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