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Show Love Story and Chilling Mystery Are Unreeled In "Rebecca" Based on the popular, best-selling Dahpne du Maurier novel, David Da-vid O. Selznick's producUon, "Rebecca," "Re-becca," which will have a gala premiere pre-miere at the Rivoli theatre on Sunday, was filmed with a cast whose list of stars reads like a screen Blue Book. Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine Fon-taine appear in the principal starring star-ring Toles, while the featured cast includes Reginald Denny, Judith Anderson, C. Aubrey Smith, Geo. Sanders, Gladys Cooper, Florence Bates and Nigel Bruce. Alfred Hitchcock, who previously staged such successes as "The Lady Vanishes'' Van-ishes'' and "The 39 Steps," directed direct-ed "Rebecca" from the screen play written by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison. Under the direction of Lyle Wheeler, art director at Selznick International, forty different sets representing the picturesque back-gounds back-gounds of the story were constructed con-structed for the film. Among the unusual settings are London streets, old taverns, a coroner's office, and a gloomy boahouse facing a windswept bay on the coast of Cornwall. The largest set, depicting the Tudor estate known as Mander-ley. Mander-ley. was built two stories high on a plot of ground which measured 100x125 feet. All sets were first built in miniature from the descriptions de-scriptions of locales and buildings written by Miss du Maurier herself her-self in her novel. They were later erected in full size by three hundred hun-dred studio workmen. When finally fin-ally completed, Manderley was a complete home containing a library, li-brary, drawing room, dining room, foyer and two upper story wings. To insure furthe authenticity in the poduction, Producer Selznick had photographs of scenes and characters in the small towns of Cornwall, where the main action of "Rebecca" takes place, made in England, and then shipped to California. Thus the action as well as the costuming, centering around Olivier and Joan Fontaine In the leading roles, is entirely accurate As for the real thing in mystery an deerie atmosphere, they were furnished with an their full implications impli-cations by Mr. Hitchcock, known all over the globe as a master of horror stories. |
