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Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland at the 14th Academy Awards, where Fontaine won best actress for Suspicion, 1942. (x)

If you’re going to kill someone, do it simply.

SUSPICION 1941, dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Rebecca (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

You’ve always wanted to see this room, haven’t you, madam? Why did you never ask me to show it to you? I was ready to show it to you every day. It’s a lovely room, isn’t it? The loveliest room you’ve ever seen. Rebecca (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. Joan Fontaine as Mrs. de Winter in Rebecca (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Rebecca (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

“I thought about being placid, how quiet and comfortable it sounded, someone with knitting on her lap, with calm unruffled brow. Someone who was never anxious, never tortured by doubt and indecision, someone who never stood as I did, hopeful, eager, frightened, tearing at bitten nails, uncertain which way to go, what star to follow.” Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Costumes in The Women (1939) Designed by Adrian

It’s a pity you have to grow up.

Rebecca (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Rebecca (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Rebecca (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

– Laurence Olivier & Joan Fontaine in Rebecca (1940)

I feel at such a disadvantage. All the time, whenever I meet someone, Maxim’s sister or even the servants, I know they’re all thinking the same thing, that they’re all comparing me with her.

Rebecca (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock