Daphne Du Maurier with her father, Sir Reginald Du Maurier, Hampstead, 1925
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Daphne du Maurier, from “My Cousin Rachel”
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HAPPY 36th BIRTHDAY HOLLIDAY GRAINGER ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚
"Sometimes people have a lack of imagination, for years I wasn’t bored of being in period dramas, I was just bored of being asked, ‘Am I bored of being in period dramas? And it does make you think, ‘Oh, should I switch this up now? Should I do something different?’ But actually, it sounds so cliché, but it’s all about the story and the characters. I think that historically they’ve been a stepping stone for white, middle-class English actresses, that these are your opportunities, and these are the roles… I do feel like it used to be a rite of passage. Like, ‘Now you can play the lead in a period drama, well done!’ [But] quite often they have been the good roles. I remember thinking that of all the scripts that I used to read, the best and most complex characters were often in period dramas, and that there weren’t very many opportunities outside of that to really explore complex issues. But I think that that’s changing now."
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From Dapne du Maurier 's Tale :' My Cousin Rachel ', illustrated by Errol Le Cain, 1970
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Daphne Du Maurier, from "My Cousin Rachel"
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daphne du maurier books come in three flavors:
1. let me tell you about the time 30 years ago when I lost my heart to a tender adventuring scoundrel before I realized that life is pain and the only constant is the blue Cornish sea
2. This Family is Insane and I’m going to tell you their story for anywhere from 5 to 200 years but at least they have the blue Cornish sea
3. the past is real and it will kill you but the blue Cornish sea never changes
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CLASSIC ADAPTIONS OF DAPHNE DU MAURIER:
Jamaica Inn (1939) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Rebecca (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
My Cousin Rachel (1952) dir. Henry Koster
The Birds (1963) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Don't Look Now (1973) dir. Nicolas Roeg
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For I'm sure Daphne du Maurier, like her readers, absolutely fell for Rachel, choosing to write the book in first person through the dewy, ever-widening eyes of her boy protagonist. [...] "In the writing of the novel," [du Maurier] says, "I turned so completely into Philip, I was beguiled, and [Rachel] could have poisoned the entire world and I would not have minded."
— Roger Michelle in an introduction for My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
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sometimes i think about the fact that if we didn’t have a weird girl with an overfevered imagination and attachment issues (charlotte bronte) we wouldn’t have four generations of female fiction classics
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Daphne du Maurier, from “My Cousin Rachel”
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"I think Louise is emotionally complex but she doesn’t over-pinpoint anything which kinda leaves you the audience with these questions and ambiguity."
— HOLLIDAY GRAINGER
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Richard Burton | My Cousin Rachel (1952)
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