In Daphne du Maurier: A Daughter’s Memoir, her daughter Flavia Leng described the du Maurier home as a writers utopia: “The house was always filled with well-known folk from the world of theatre and literature.” Peter Pan author J.M.
Daphne’s grandfather George du Maurier’s gothic novel Trilby introduced the now-legendary character “Svengali” to the canon her father, Gerald, was a stage actor so famous that du Maurier cigarettes are named after him. The du Mauriers were a famous and wealthy family of actors and writers. Du Maurier’s fifth novel made her a literary sensation at 31, although not one without a head start. Published in 1938, Rebecca was an overnight success-the initial print run of 20,000 flew off bookstore shelves. This version-premiering 80 years after Alfred Hitchcock’s timeless best-picture winner-casts Armie Hammer and Lily James as rich widower Maxim de Winter and his nameless bride, who’s slowly consumed with envy as she grows obsessed with his first wife, Rebecca. On October 21, Netflix premieres a film reincarnation of an old classic: Rebecca, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier.
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