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Maxim whisks her off to Manderlay, his large country estate in Cornwall, and all seems well, but the new Mrs.

Starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier, “Rebecca” centers on an unnamed and naive heroine (Fontaine), who by chance, meets the aristocratic widower Maximilian de Winter (Olivier) in Monte Carlo and the two quickly fall in love. Read on below.īased on the novel by Daphne du Maurier (she wrote the source material for “ The Birds” and “ Jamaica Inn”), Hitchcock’s “ Rebecca” is a textbook and classic psychological drama that would go on to win the Best Picture Oscar in 1941. With a new Blu-ray box-set in stores this week, we’ve been looking at the directors’ career, and after examining his early silent and British films yesterday, we finish off today with the Hollywood era, from “Rebecca” in 1940 to “ Family Plot” in 1976. But it’s the quality of many of the films of his Hollywood years that lingers long past any awards. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in 1968. This period, starting with 1940’s Best Picture-winning “Rebecca,” saw Hitchcock nominated for five Best Director Academy Awards, but the filmmaker never won, bar the Irving G. ‘My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock’ Review: What Movie Documentaries Should Be

Becoming an icon thanks to his recognizable figure and high public profile, he produced and presented the long-running “ Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” which along with a long string of box office hits, made him one of the few filmmakers who was also a bona fide household name. Selznick signing the filmmaker to an exclusive contract, and bringing him over to direct “ Rebecca.”Īnd over the next 35 years, Hitchcock produced almost a film per year, including a selection of thrillers that number among the finest ever made (including “ Vertigo,” named by international critics this year as the greatest film ever). Magna Carta, the Tower Bridge and Alfred Hitchcock, the greatest director of screen melodramas in the world.” And unsurprisingly, he came to the attention of Hollywood, with David O. In the late 1930s, with films like “ The Man Who Knew Too Much,” “ The 39 Steps” and “ The Lady Vanishes” having proven global hits, the New York Times wrote: “Three unique and valuable institutions the British have that we in America have not.