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Rebecca

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.

1979 |1 Season  | 55m |  Mystery, Drama

Cast

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Joanna David

The Girl / Mrs de Winter

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Jeremy Brett

Maximilian 'Maxim' de Winter

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Anna Massey

Mrs Danvers

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Hugh Morton

Frith

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Creator

Hugh Whitemore

Status

Ended

Languages

English

Network

BBC Two