Maxim fell in love with his 2nd wife BECAUSE she was a child, a young and fresh schoolgirl type who is the completely opposite of his ex-wife Rebecca who was a sophisticated beauty, cold and manipulative.
Maxim famously asks her "where is that young girl I used to love"? after she loses some of her innocence after being exposed to some the truths of her husband's former life with his 1st wife.
I remember reading somewhere that Olivier and Fontaine didn't get on all that well. I think Olivier wanted the part of the second Mrs. De Winter to go to Vivien Leigh (his girlfriend/future wife) and it put him in a snit with both the director and Fontaine.
So I was surprised to see a lot of chemistry between the characters. ...But, I guess it just goes to show what great actors both Olivier and Fontaine were.
Perhaps it has something to do with the way you sought out the perfect, mousy, victim, isolated her on your estate, inhabited by crazos and reptilian-minded predators out to eat her alive, and are only ever a decent husband to her long enough to cultivate her trust to the point that you can capitalize on that by spitting venom in her face and watching her break down?
@MrRichygm Hey! I'd forgotten I wrote that. Yes, It's drama. Good drama, too. It's been done and redone. Perhaps most notably in the 1970 season of Dark Shadows. But I think I'll stand by what I said. Maxim is about as thoughtless as Quentin. Although Selby played the part with even more withering bluster. And that that rendition had some particularly horrifying moments. Like when Quentin found out that it was really Angelique's sister, Alexis, that he'd burned alive in her coffin. Oops!
@Shanebabys - the second Mrs de Winter is plain, submissive and weak-charactered; in the book, all we know is that she has a 'lovely and unusual name' - and that it is her father that gives it to her. Later, she has yet another identity bestowed upon her by a man - her husband. Mrs. de Winter. Her namelessness highlights the indestructible nature of Rebecca - whose name lives on on the cover of the book. She wins in the end, even though she is dead.
Wins the battle but loses the war. Would any of us choose to trade places with Rebecca? Both Mrs. DeWinters had problems with self-confidence, which they addressed in entirely different ways.
@Shanebabys i just realized i'm almost done with the book and never knew that 2nd mrs. de winter really wasnt named... i thought i would just look for it again at the beginning after i finished reading lol.
I love the movie, but have never read the book. The fact that they are giving the late Rebecca so much credence and letting that horrid Ms. Danvers carry so much weight, seems a little silly. The minute she got snide with me I would have told her where to go and how to get there..... and THEN run to my handsome husband and told him I didn't like her. But this is what movies and novels are meant to be and I love this. ; )
@9876543217303 Wouldn't work. That possibility was explored in Dark Shadows during the Parallel Time storyline, when Quentin married Maggie. Hoffman was Danvers. Quentin was Maxim. And Maggie was "I". She went to Quentin about Hoffman, and was labeled a loon. She was driven out of Collinwood. Not sure if an Alexis or Angelique is going to show up. But marrying an abusive guy you don't even know, and then complaining to him about his trusted staff never works. Stupid girl... whatever her name is.
What a prick to just leave her by herself on the beach, she then had to chase after him and I don't think he stopped until she yelled and practically threw herself at him!
hER SHYNESS IS LIKE TOO MUCH, SHE NEEDS A LITTLE BACKBONE, LIKE EXPLORE BE EXCITED.... THEN AT 7:46 SHE DECIDES TO DECIDE... NOT THE BEST TIME "YOU LITTLE FOOL" HAHAHA
Love that cottage by the sea.....everything just as the day Rebecca died......the ashtray with her cigarette butts still on the divan.......the flowers now dead in the vase....the spiderwebs......and of course, the haunting music.
I just think actresses back then were so beautiful. They had this classic, natural beauty. They were thin, but not sticks, it was a healthy thin. We don't really have that now these daysss....):
@oohcrayons yes so true. But they also had alot of problems that the public didn't know about, Judy Garland died because she was drugoverdoser. and marlyn Monroe commited Sucide, being a celebrity was terrible lifestyle back then. celebrities more free to do what they want. It just seems so unhuman to set a lifestyle where you were a perfect plastic doll 24/7
@NuclearPlanet that is a very good point! i never thought about it that way. i agree with you about the plastic doll thing. it would be great if the world would just embrace natural beauty. but some people just don't want to see it that way.
@Gabi8ful I thought I was the only one that noticed. Everyone keeps going on about what a handsome, romantic hero he is. Pfft! In the dancing scene at the beginning when she was had her eyes closed and her head tilted I was like 'My goodness, isn't she beautiful?' but he just smiled indulgently as if she were his daughter. You hear that the English were god awfully repressed back then and watching this you wonder if its true. Give me Tyrone Powers any day of the week.
I'm pretty sure she knocked the cupid over with the books Bee gave her for a wedding present but here she knocked it over the first time she sat at the desk and she had not even met Mrs Lacy yet...
Yes, in the book it is her wedding present that knocks over the cupid, which was, ironically a wedding present of Rebecca's. I'm about halfway through the book; it's intriguing and very interesting. :) I'm only watching snatches of it until I finish the book, but she makes a lovely Mrs DeWinter; very innocent looking. :)
Yes, the first wife was Rebecca. The woman in the painting was an ancestress of Max de Winter. The poor little second wife got conned by Mrs. Danvers into dressing up as Lady Caroline, not knowing that Rebecca had worn exactly the same costume a year earlier.
No, she does not. The author did it on purpose to make her seem even more unimportant and inferior compared to Rebecca and her great, well-known name.
@LexiixoxRoxx Actually, I read that she didn't give the second Mrs. de Winter a name, not because she liked the literary device, but because she couldn't think of one. My edition of the book has a long afterword by Du Maurier, and that's one of the things she says. :)
@KMRakaKAT Very much so. The servants didn't respect her because she was too different from their beloved Rebecca - the REAL mrs. de Winter. Besides the second mrs. de Winter was to shy and frightened to demand respect.
Time constraints were a crutch back then. Also understand that it can be tricky to bring a full novel's story to the screen and engage the audience for two hours. It's more difficult than it seems
The musak is really annoying... but... that was, alas, the done thing in those days... smother everything in a musical-sauce... strings for love and emotions... percussion for tension and fear...
I read the book, and when I found out that there was a movie, I ran directly to the computer! And by the way, you've gotta love Laurence Olivier. Hooray for Daphne de Maurier.
the girl's name is never mentioned in the book...there's a bit of dialogue between her and Maxim before they're married where she tells him her name and says she was named after her father, and he says the name is "lovely and unusual", but we never hear what it is!
my favourite part in the book is when she stands up to ole danny, and is not afraid anymore, i loved the thouhgt of her being above, it must have seared her to the core poor old ms danvers, the bitch from hell, and i have to wonder if de maurier had any inkling that in this age readers may wonder if the y were together, it would be very bold in the 30's to say, but i still wonder
Yea that's the first time she actually shows so me backbone. I was happy that she finally stood up to Danny, since she's such a bitch to her, but then again Mrs. Danvers was my favorite character so at the same time I was hoping Danny would bitch her back. lol In the movie, Mrs. Danvers is much much meaner. In the book she cries like three times as oppose to here where she's always emotionless.
Joan Fontaine's character's name was never revealed, nor did the novel ever say it. It's quite interesting that everytime in the movie, somebody was going to say her name, and was immediately interrupted.
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Think he married her on the rebound. Obviously isn't even able to cope with his first wife's death. As for the strangely Rebecca-obsessed servant, she's creepy. I wouldn't keep her around, she seems disturbed. Jealous of someone's new wife because you loved the one that died??! Wonder if she killed her.
Gladys Cooper - what an actor! She was a huge star in England before going to the US. She was great in so many films. She's only in this such a short time but she makes her mark - I love how she says, "ow, plate full".
I cannot believe that this is the same Judith Anderson who played Minx Lockridge on "Santa Barbara"! She does look and sound very much the same too. Does anyone else remember her from that show?
My first order of business as the new Mrs Maxim De Winter would be to get rid of Danvers...next, toss out or burn all of Rebecca's things, get all of them out of the house.
Monogrammed napkins - now that's something you don't see everyday! Dead eyes Mrs Danvers has definitely got something stuck up her arse sideways so I'd be getting rid of her quick smart.
Horrible little cupid statuette, poor Mrs. de Winter. That Rebecca sure was a silly old bird monogramming everything, and to be sure she was a great narcisist. Daphne du Maurier doesn't give our leading lady a name in the book because she wants Rebecca's name to be the only one we hear, the effect is freat but the name will never be the same. Old Becky's really got this girl on the ropes though she's dead as a turkey dinner.
Yeah, I feel bad for her as I watch this. At the same time, though, I work with someone a lot like Danvers (ie even though I'm his boss he's condescending to me) and it can really wear down your nerves.
rebecca could surely not have been lovelier or more unforgetable than the ethereal Joan Fontaine
Ascreavie1 1 week ago
Maxim fell in love with his 2nd wife BECAUSE she was a child, a young and fresh schoolgirl type who is the completely opposite of his ex-wife Rebecca who was a sophisticated beauty, cold and manipulative.
Maxim famously asks her "where is that young girl I used to love"? after she loses some of her innocence after being exposed to some the truths of her husband's former life with his 1st wife.
ContrastY 1 week ago
Rebecca certainly liked her monograms !
n0iwont 3 weeks ago 2
The late Rebecca seemed to keep ornaments in the most awkward and precarious positions upon her writing desk.
n0iwont 3 weeks ago 2
Maxim - spoiled, arrogant rich boy, with problems, that needs to have his arse kicked
maurizius27 1 month ago
It's Dr Watson!
Sodhats 2 months ago
@schaferhund11 Agreed. But even jasper is sending out his resumé. Then again, there is something to be said for not having to worry about money.
sbergman27 2 months ago
CAN'T BE TO CAREFUL W/ CHILDREN
1983CUEVAS 4 months ago
what are the differences of the film and book?
BillyAndDeclanFan 4 months ago
5:21 when he waves her hand lol! :D
mrsallerdyce 5 months ago
Everyone is so nasty to her :(
DameHaha2011 7 months ago
I remember reading somewhere that Olivier and Fontaine didn't get on all that well. I think Olivier wanted the part of the second Mrs. De Winter to go to Vivien Leigh (his girlfriend/future wife) and it put him in a snit with both the director and Fontaine.
So I was surprised to see a lot of chemistry between the characters. ...But, I guess it just goes to show what great actors both Olivier and Fontaine were.
Stargazer19 7 months ago
@Stargazer19
I had not heard that before but if it is true the conflict worked to the film's advantage.
There is chemistry between the two stars of this film but there is tension too.
Maxim loves his 2nd wife but he is always angry.
ContrastY 1 week ago
The awkward moment when your brother-in-law mentions your dead wife..
Did this novel as half of my English dissertation, such a brilliant book.
poorlydrawnskulls 7 months ago
"You don't sail do you? Thank goodness for that." ZING!
humansRpepul2 7 months ago
"do you like my hair?"
see it like a child asking her dad lol, dk but i smiled:D
zenith0000006 9 months ago
09:40 - "Oh... I've made you cry.."
Dear Maxim,
Perhaps it has something to do with the way you sought out the perfect, mousy, victim, isolated her on your estate, inhabited by crazos and reptilian-minded predators out to eat her alive, and are only ever a decent husband to her long enough to cultivate her trust to the point that you can capitalize on that by spitting venom in her face and watching her break down?
Just a thought. But you might consider.
Sincerely,
A Viewer
Just a thought.
sbergman27 10 months ago 20
@sbergman27 It's drama, for goodness sake!
MrRichygm 2 months ago
@MrRichygm Hey! I'd forgotten I wrote that. Yes, It's drama. Good drama, too. It's been done and redone. Perhaps most notably in the 1970 season of Dark Shadows. But I think I'll stand by what I said. Maxim is about as thoughtless as Quentin. Although Selby played the part with even more withering bluster. And that that rendition had some particularly horrifying moments. Like when Quentin found out that it was really Angelique's sister, Alexis, that he'd burned alive in her coffin. Oops!
sbergman27 2 months ago
I haven't finished the movie, but what is the significance of not giving the current Ms De Winter a name?
Shanebabys 10 months ago 2
@Shanebabys - the second Mrs de Winter is plain, submissive and weak-charactered; in the book, all we know is that she has a 'lovely and unusual name' - and that it is her father that gives it to her. Later, she has yet another identity bestowed upon her by a man - her husband. Mrs. de Winter. Her namelessness highlights the indestructible nature of Rebecca - whose name lives on on the cover of the book. She wins in the end, even though she is dead.
Snezhinka9 10 months ago 2
@Snezhinka9 "She wins in the end"
Wins the battle but loses the war. Would any of us choose to trade places with Rebecca? Both Mrs. DeWinters had problems with self-confidence, which they addressed in entirely different ways.
sbergman27 2 months ago
@Shanebabys i just realized i'm almost done with the book and never knew that 2nd mrs. de winter really wasnt named... i thought i would just look for it again at the beginning after i finished reading lol.
zenith0000006 9 months ago
love how giles just covers his mouth like a little kid....but hate how everyone tries to make her fit into the space Rebecca left.
MsAlex1717 11 months ago
the house is exactly the way i pictured it while reading the book :)
LostStella17 11 months ago
6:04 the music is so whimsical!
ToonAddict 11 months ago
There are so many versions of Rebecca i think this is the best one!
07emily29 1 year ago
I love the movie, but have never read the book. The fact that they are giving the late Rebecca so much credence and letting that horrid Ms. Danvers carry so much weight, seems a little silly. The minute she got snide with me I would have told her where to go and how to get there..... and THEN run to my handsome husband and told him I didn't like her. But this is what movies and novels are meant to be and I love this. ; )
9876543217303 1 year ago
@9876543217303 Wouldn't work. That possibility was explored in Dark Shadows during the Parallel Time storyline, when Quentin married Maggie. Hoffman was Danvers. Quentin was Maxim. And Maggie was "I". She went to Quentin about Hoffman, and was labeled a loon. She was driven out of Collinwood. Not sure if an Alexis or Angelique is going to show up. But marrying an abusive guy you don't even know, and then complaining to him about his trusted staff never works. Stupid girl... whatever her name is.
sbergman27 10 months ago
@9876543217303 Then, a lot of drama would have been lost.
MrRichygm 2 months ago
Beatrice isn't how I imagined her in the novel... same personality but I imagined Bea in the book to be plump and stocky for some reason.
Giles is perfect!
asmileisspecial 1 year ago
LOL! Giles, you're very much in the way, go somewhere else! And he DOES! *laughs hysterically*
asmileisspecial 1 year ago 4
i love the exchange at 3:18 between Maxim and Mrs. Lacy. Genuis, Alfred! "Everyone's dying to see you and...uhh." haha.
allstatebass 1 year ago
He ruffles her hair like a dog! But darn he's so cute he can get away with it
skymelts 1 year ago 3
Why was every pet in that time named Jasper??!! Lol!
laughsaremeds 1 year ago
What a prick to just leave her by herself on the beach, she then had to chase after him and I don't think he stopped until she yelled and practically threw herself at him!
TheLaughinAssassin 1 year ago
hER SHYNESS IS LIKE TOO MUCH, SHE NEEDS A LITTLE BACKBONE, LIKE EXPLORE BE EXCITED.... THEN AT 7:46 SHE DECIDES TO DECIDE... NOT THE BEST TIME "YOU LITTLE FOOL" HAHAHA
Tranquila95 1 year ago
hER SHYNESS IS LIKE TOO MUCH, SHE NEEDS A LITTLE BACKBONE, LIKE EXPLORE BE EXCITED....
Tranquila95 1 year ago
3:48 wow, can't believe he said that and that was such a fake way to respond to his comment.
RUundergrad 1 year ago
I find it so interesting, thank you for uploading it here. I hope the whole film is here when I reach part 13.
asiramma 1 year ago
He is so hot.
KAJAtheone 1 year ago 3
@KAJAtheone and an ass. But at least he's hot.
ParisDakota 1 year ago
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The Second mrs. de winter never has a name and Rebecca never had a physical discription. Gives them both a sense of mystery
ChildOfTheFlower 1 year ago
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ChildOfTheFlower 1 year ago
I really love old movies, the storyline are often way better than modern stuff.
GeminiSarahAnne 1 year ago
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NuclearPlanet 1 year ago
A fat buffoon with foot planted firmly in his mouth...OMG it's WATSON!
templar19 1 year ago
Love that cottage by the sea.....everything just as the day Rebecca died......the ashtray with her cigarette butts still on the divan.......the flowers now dead in the vase....the spiderwebs......and of course, the haunting music.
uglyrunt 1 year ago
Mrs. Lacy is a hoot.
2:07 Giles, you're very much in the way...
2:58 Ooooh, a plateful.
snipetracker 1 year ago
I just think actresses back then were so beautiful. They had this classic, natural beauty. They were thin, but not sticks, it was a healthy thin. We don't really have that now these daysss....):
oohcrayons 1 year ago 3
@oohcrayons yes so true. But they also had alot of problems that the public didn't know about, Judy Garland died because she was drugoverdoser. and marlyn Monroe commited Sucide, being a celebrity was terrible lifestyle back then. celebrities more free to do what they want. It just seems so unhuman to set a lifestyle where you were a perfect plastic doll 24/7
NuclearPlanet 1 year ago
@NuclearPlanet that is a very good point! i never thought about it that way. i agree with you about the plastic doll thing. it would be great if the world would just embrace natural beauty. but some people just don't want to see it that way.
oohcrayons 1 year ago
The movie is based on the book of the same name by Daphne Du Maurier.
queenwalden90 1 year ago
Joan Fontaine is so amazing in this movie, even though she could have been weak. But as I said she's wonderful.
dinasztie 1 year ago
"Giles, you're very much in the way here. Go somewhere else."
hjb103055 1 year ago 4
hitchcock dating,
GarydosDoritos 1 year ago
I had to laugh at the frumpy sister in law giving Maxims wife fashion advice and criticising her hair
sugarspicennotsonice 1 year ago 4
When the guy said "Do you sail?" and she said "No" and he replied with "Well that's a good thing..."...I literally said "too soon?"
HarryPotterFan103 1 year ago 3
she is a wonderful representation of the narrator
LMLNet 1 year ago
I'd get really annoyed if my husband kept treating me like a child
Gabi8ful 2 years ago 14
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@Gabi8ful "I'd get really annoyed if my husband kept treating me like a child."
My ultimate solution was to get rid of mine.
-Steve
sbergman27 2 months ago
@Gabi8ful I thought I was the only one that noticed. Everyone keeps going on about what a handsome, romantic hero he is. Pfft! In the dancing scene at the beginning when she was had her eyes closed and her head tilted I was like 'My goodness, isn't she beautiful?' but he just smiled indulgently as if she were his daughter. You hear that the English were god awfully repressed back then and watching this you wonder if its true. Give me Tyrone Powers any day of the week.
F4NT4FRU1TTW15T 1 month ago
@Gabi8ful amen to that
Lovepian3023 2 days ago
I'm pretty sure she knocked the cupid over with the books Bee gave her for a wedding present but here she knocked it over the first time she sat at the desk and she had not even met Mrs Lacy yet...
tennant000forever 2 years ago
Yes, in the book it is her wedding present that knocks over the cupid, which was, ironically a wedding present of Rebecca's. I'm about halfway through the book; it's intriguing and very interesting. :) I'm only watching snatches of it until I finish the book, but she makes a lovely Mrs DeWinter; very innocent looking. :)
calamtykel 1 year ago 3
@calamtykel
I would love to read the book. Is it a Hitchcock book or is it by someone else?
MissBaileyBarnum 1 year ago
@MissBaileyBarnum The book is Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. (:
I had to read it for school...i loved it though.
oohcrayons 1 year ago
Bloddy secondhand husband
pintudoon11 2 years ago
i hate it how her name doesnt appear like never.. the writter of the book never gave her a name.. is a bit annpying..
sexypop23 2 years ago
who is Mirs Van HOpper!??
sasoslifeful 2 years ago
the old odious woman from the beginnin. the second Mrs. de Winter was her compannion
christianb44 2 years ago
It must smell bad in there... 7:45
paack3 2 years ago
Everyone should just give her a break, it is horrible to live in the shadow of another person's legacy with everyone comparing her to Rebecca
camelot4422 2 years ago 4
WHY DOESN'T SHE HAVE A NAME THOUGH
nikkyj12345678910 2 years ago 3
In the book you find out that her name is Caroline...I know I was always wondering why on earth you didn't find a name!! But that's her name.
jjbeadle1 2 years ago
No, that's not her name. She dresses up as Lady Carolyn or Caroline de Winter for a fancy dress ball.
jessyquedens 2 years ago
Oh I thought that she dressed up as the woman in the painting. And I thought that Mr. de Winter's first wife was Rebeca?
jjbeadle1 2 years ago
Yes, the first wife was Rebecca. The woman in the painting was an ancestress of Max de Winter. The poor little second wife got conned by Mrs. Danvers into dressing up as Lady Caroline, not knowing that Rebecca had worn exactly the same costume a year earlier.
jessyquedens 2 years ago
Caroline de Winter is the name of Maxim's ancestress, not the second Mrs. de Winter.
LexiixoxRoxx 2 years ago 2
@nikkyj12345678910 she does have a name , I will find it for you.
paack3 2 years ago
No, she does not. The author did it on purpose to make her seem even more unimportant and inferior compared to Rebecca and her great, well-known name.
LexiixoxRoxx 2 years ago 6
@LexiixoxRoxx Actually, I read that she didn't give the second Mrs. de Winter a name, not because she liked the literary device, but because she couldn't think of one. My edition of the book has a long afterword by Du Maurier, and that's one of the things she says. :)
thePlagueCat 2 years ago 3
Is it my imagination or is everyone really rude to her?
KMRakaKAT 2 years ago 78
@KMRakaKAT Very much so. The servants didn't respect her because she was too different from their beloved Rebecca - the REAL mrs. de Winter. Besides the second mrs. de Winter was to shy and frightened to demand respect.
MsSarjen 1 year ago
@KMRakaKAT No, everyone is extremely abusive and insulting. And she is so shy and kind!
NataschaO 1 year ago
@KMRakaKAT
Upperclass manners are just a facade that mask the real beast inside.
shanghaibenny2 8 months ago 2
This is so inaccurate from the book!!!
Cbabychick 2 years ago
Time constraints were a crutch back then. Also understand that it can be tricky to bring a full novel's story to the screen and engage the audience for two hours. It's more difficult than it seems
LadyVader33 2 years ago 9
So true, I just read the novel again, and I'm sorry to say a disservice was done to the beautiful prose and love story in that book.
I hate the dialogue compared to the sentiment and complexity of the novel. I know everyone says that, but the book is so much better than the movie.
And that annoying background music, ruins every scene.
DelusionalTruth 2 years ago
The musak is really annoying... but... that was, alas, the done thing in those days... smother everything in a musical-sauce... strings for love and emotions... percussion for tension and fear...
*Yawn*
macintosser 2 years ago
@macintosser lol
KAZAMization 2 years ago
I read the book, and when I found out that there was a movie, I ran directly to the computer! And by the way, you've gotta love Laurence Olivier. Hooray for Daphne de Maurier.
ApolloSleeps 2 years ago 11
Laurence Olivier is the bomb!!
nobotoolbox 2 years ago 16
I for one think that she has marvelous hair, especially when she tosses her head back, or when it blows in the wind...
iloveffvii 2 years ago 9
I think it is adorable that during the movie the dog starts falling the new mrs dewinter around.
I think Maxim is a perfect arse sometimes.
adrake1000 2 years ago 5
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lolz, two faced cunts. this movie is alot of fun.
johnluvsluna 2 years ago
i thought her hair was supposed ot be flat....but anyway i think its pretty
r5q5is10 2 years ago 5
i had to read this for school and i absolutely adore it.....ms. Danvers did give me my fair share of nightmares though...
2rainydays 2 years ago
the girl's name is never mentioned in the book...there's a bit of dialogue between her and Maxim before they're married where she tells him her name and says she was named after her father, and he says the name is "lovely and unusual", but we never hear what it is!
gertrudewhite 2 years ago 6
what is the second wive's first name?
greenxlemons 2 years ago
we never find out what it is in the book or in the movie
bookishmuch 2 years ago 2
my favourite part in the book is when she stands up to ole danny, and is not afraid anymore, i loved the thouhgt of her being above, it must have seared her to the core poor old ms danvers, the bitch from hell, and i have to wonder if de maurier had any inkling that in this age readers may wonder if the y were together, it would be very bold in the 30's to say, but i still wonder
maidmoira 2 years ago
Yea that's the first time she actually shows so me backbone. I was happy that she finally stood up to Danny, since she's such a bitch to her, but then again Mrs. Danvers was my favorite character so at the same time I was hoping Danny would bitch her back. lol In the movie, Mrs. Danvers is much much meaner. In the book she cries like three times as oppose to here where she's always emotionless.
LexiixoxRoxx 2 years ago
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He really loved her.
The whole matter of the book was that, she thought he didn't......it was told from the narrator's point of view.
He killed his first wife.
Sorry if I ruined it for some of you people.
KittyKatXBby 2 years ago
thanks for that...
unimaginative13 2 years ago
Sorry, what you should do it is to delete your message,
donquijote1974 2 years ago
arsehole
606curtis57 2 years ago
@606curtis57 Haha, wow, I was an asshole. Sorry about that.
KittyKatXBby 11 months ago
the book better
dawnrexgurl 2 years ago
"Do you Ramba?"
"I never tried"
"You must teach me!"
Hahahaha...what a heel!
LOVE IT!
BSTO88 2 years ago 6
such a frightened rabbit! it upsets me she can't cope with being a lady of a manor.
angelinamontgomery 2 years ago 6
Joan Fontaine's character's name was never revealed, nor did the novel ever say it. It's quite interesting that everytime in the movie, somebody was going to say her name, and was immediately interrupted.
oklahomatornadoes 2 years ago
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Think he married her on the rebound. Obviously isn't even able to cope with his first wife's death. As for the strangely Rebecca-obsessed servant, she's creepy. I wouldn't keep her around, she seems disturbed. Jealous of someone's new wife because you loved the one that died??! Wonder if she killed her.
spinspinnsugar 2 years ago
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creepy? even if she told me m not allowed to eat a sandwich in peace id still try and find someway to hit that hot maid from the back. you feel me?
blinkzone1 2 years ago
Read the book - she wasn't a rebound.
xforcedsilencex 2 years ago 30
No she didn't kill her. She is pretty disturbed but she was my favorite character in the book =] lol
LexiixoxRoxx 2 years ago
I love the dog!
karendymq 3 years ago 12
You don't sail, do you? Thank goodness for that!
lol the way he puts his hand to his mouth after saying this makes me laugh every time, how tactless can you be?!
brilliant film, brilliant novel
SeveralStoreysHigh 3 years ago 11
Gladys Cooper - what an actor! She was a huge star in England before going to the US. She was great in so many films. She's only in this such a short time but she makes her mark - I love how she says, "ow, plate full".
iluvdesmond 3 years ago
"why do you pull your hair back...O no thats worse" LMAO
ellieb1228 3 years ago 6
Im sorry, that would be Dame Judith Anderson, as she was later known.
bldali 3 years ago
I cannot believe that this is the same Judith Anderson who played Minx Lockridge on "Santa Barbara"! She does look and sound very much the same too. Does anyone else remember her from that show?
bldali 3 years ago 2
whatever happened to the poem book maxim gave her in the novel, that little event had some symbollism in it..
for anyone who has read the book here..
addictedtomusic0 3 years ago 5
Yea thats my fave scene in the book so far - haven't fnished it yet.
LoonyInSpace 3 years ago 2
Why, I say.... It's Doctor Watson!!!
jlaurson 3 years ago
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sorry but maxime is ugly
Chikalita2 3 years ago
This is a joke surely? Laurence Olivier UGLY?
Enheduanas 3 years ago 26
Probably comparing him to some modern actor like Johnny Depp, though a very good actor but no where near the calibre of the Laurence Olivier!
DrinkWater22 3 years ago 9
sacrilege!!! of course i prefer George Sanders, but ugly, how can you say that?!
mjloca 3 years ago 2
My first order of business as the new Mrs Maxim De Winter would be to get rid of Danvers...next, toss out or burn all of Rebecca's things, get all of them out of the house.
skylur44 3 years ago 16
Absolutely. Without delay.
shibamatachick 3 years ago 4
Wow, she really is a beautiful woman in every sense. Not like the majority of Hollywood tarts like today.
didier350 3 years ago 62
Monogrammed napkins - now that's something you don't see everyday! Dead eyes Mrs Danvers has definitely got something stuck up her arse sideways so I'd be getting rid of her quick smart.
Ozzee1 3 years ago 9
Horrible little cupid statuette, poor Mrs. de Winter. That Rebecca sure was a silly old bird monogramming everything, and to be sure she was a great narcisist. Daphne du Maurier doesn't give our leading lady a name in the book because she wants Rebecca's name to be the only one we hear, the effect is freat but the name will never be the same. Old Becky's really got this girl on the ropes though she's dead as a turkey dinner.
poliador 4 years ago 12
Mrs. de Winter sure doesn't have any sense.
clockworkgirl21 4 years ago 6
Yeah, I feel bad for her as I watch this. At the same time, though, I work with someone a lot like Danvers (ie even though I'm his boss he's condescending to me) and it can really wear down your nerves.
ElizaWard 3 years ago 2
Get rid of him. You don't need that in your life. : )
shibamatachick 3 years ago 5
god its like the whole house is a shine!
ihateskirts 4 years ago 6
*shrine
ihateskirts 4 years ago 6
this is one of my absolute favorite movies. it's simply great!
wilhelmfink 4 years ago 8
"she's not exactly an oil painting is she?"
:D
twinchu 4 years ago 16