Oscar-winning actor who played threatened heroines for Alfred Hitchcock in Rebecca and SuspicionIt was hard to cast the lead in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1939. The female fans of the bestseller were very protective of the naive woman whom the widower Max de Winter marries and transports to his ancestral home of Manderley. None of the contenders " including Vivien Leigh, Anne Baxter an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:49AM on December 16, 2013