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shaping the look of Hitchcock’s Rebecca
With the release of Ben Wheatley’s brand new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s gothic romance novel, Rebecca, I wanted to look back at Hitchcock’s classic, to explore his relationship with Joan Fontaine, and how he shaped her image in the film, as he did with so many of his Hitchcock Heroines. As his first American…
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Hitchcock’s British Heroines
We all know about the glacial elegance of Hitchcock blondes like Grace Kelly, Tippi Hedren and Kim Novak, but the heroines from Hitchcock’s early British films are much less well known. So let’s explore some of these actresses, and why they are the starting point when studying the women in Hitchcock films and his impeccable…
