A shy lady's companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter (Sir Laurence Olivier ... death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident ...

This week sees the centenaries of novelist Daphne du Maurier (May 13) and Laurence Olivier (May 22). There will be events ... of both can be appreciated in Hitchcock's adaptation of Rebecca, which the ...