Posted on 11/14/2018 4:12:14 PM PST by EdnaMode
Lily James is to play the lead role in a film remake of Daphne du Maurier’s classic gothic novel Rebecca.
Alfred Hitchcock’s cult 1940 adaptation of the psychological thriller, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, won an Oscar for best picture.
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Hollywood actor Armie Hammer will take Olivier’s role as de Winter, who along with his creepy housekeeper Mrs Danvers still appears obsessed with his eponymous late wife Rebecca.
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Bogart was very ill with lung cancer at the time and didn’t lick with Hepburn. Cary Grant would have been better.
Laura is my all time favorite movie. I can watch it and never tire of it. It’s so well done!
I love the beautiful title tune.
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