Star Theatre 9 Stewart Street, Devonport, TAS - 1941

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Star Theatre 9 Stewart Street, Devonport, TAS - 1941

PHOTO - STAR DEVONPORT Image Credit Bass Strait Maritime Centre Historical Collection, unknown photographer, 1941

Description - The Star theatre is screening “Rebecca” - This is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock’s first American project, and his first film under contract with producer David O. Selznick. The screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, and adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan, were based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier.

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, George Sanders and Gladys Cooper in supporting roles. The film is a gothic tale shot in black-and-white.

Contributed by Greg Lynch -