![]() Most often, she wrote about what she knew: the craggy, tempestuous coasts and climate of Cornwall. ![]() Having eschewed a career in acting, she turned instead to writing, creating the settings of her novels as a vivid stage upon which her melodramas could unfold. In 1969, du Maurier was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.ĭu Maurier came naturally by her dramatic bent. Rebecca won an award from the American Booksellers’ Association in 1939. ![]() Her story “Don’t Look Now” became a hit film in 1973. Hitchcock turned her story “The Birds” into a highly successful motion picture in 1963. ![]() My Cousin Rachel became a Twentieth Century Fox production in 1952, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released The Scapegoat in 1959. Universal Pictures released a film adaptation of Hungry Hill in 1947, for which du Maurier herself wrote the first draft of the screenplay. Paramount filmed Frenchman’s Creek in 1944. ![]() The latter won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Alfred Hitchcock directed film versions of Jamaica Inn, in 1939, and her best-selling gothic novel Rebecca, in 1940. The theatrical quality of du Maurier’s ( – 19 April 1989) novels is evidenced by the frequency and reported ease with which her works were adapted for the big screen. ![]()
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