Rebecca is a 1940 American film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, it was his first American project, and his first film produced under contract with David O. Selznick.
The film's screenplay was by Joan Harrison and Robert E. Sherwood based on Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca.
The film stars Laurence Olivier as the brooding aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as the young woman who becomes his second wife, with Judith Anderson and George Sanders.
