Rebecca

Overview

Rebecca is a four-part British television miniseries dramatised by Hugh Whitemore, adapted from Daphne du Maurier's eponymous 1938 mystery novel (which had famously been interpreted to film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940). A naive young woman marries a wealthy widower, but grows haunted by his late wife's legacy and the sinister housekeeper's obsession with the deceased Rebecca.

Created by Hugh Whitemore

Network

• BBC Two

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Joanna David

  The Girl / Mrs de Winter

  4 eps

• 

  Jeremy Brett

  Maximilian 'Maxim' de Winter

  4 eps

• 

  Anna Massey

  Mrs Danvers

  4 eps

• 

  Hugh Morton

  Frith

  4 eps

Themes

• based on novel or book
• monaco
• widow
• cornwall, england
• remarriage
• dysfunctional family
• miniseries
• gothic horror
• gothic romance
• horror romance
• speculative fiction

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