Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestThe nightmare of the Manderley Ball is climaxed by shipwreck, and the discovery of Rebecca's body in Manderley Bay forces Maxim to confess.
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.
Acting
Anna Massey's Mrs. Danvers: terrifying devotion in every whisper.
Production
Manderley as suffocating character, not just set.
Creator
Hugh Whitemore
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jeremy Brett later became the definitive Sherlock Holmes; here he's already perfected 'emotionally constipated English aristocrat.'
This 1979 adaptation deliberately leaned into the novel's queer subtext between Mrs. Danvers and Rebecca—something Hitchcock had to bury in 1940.
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