Daphne Du Maurier Books Made Into Movies. The prime of miss jean brodie and rebecca. Daphne du maurier passed away in april 1989, aged 81, at her home in cornwall, a place whose image owes a lasting debt both to her writing and the many filmmakers it.
By the time du maurier published ‘hungry hill’ in 1943, movies had become a huge part of her image. The scapegoat by daphne du maurier Her father, gerald, was a stage actor so famous that du maurier.
Hungry hill by daphne du maurier;
Evoking an eerie atmosphere which was almost a trademark of du maurier, the pub still stands to. Daphne du maurier is best known for her short story the birds and her classic novel, rebecca, which was made into a motion picture in 1940 by alfred hitchcock. A year after he directed an adaptation of daphne du maurier’s jamaica inn, alfred hitchcock would direct his adaptation of an even more memorable du maurier novel, rebecca. Her first works did not gain a great deal of attention, but then in 1936, du maurier published jamaica inn, a story about a group of murderous men who intentionally cause ship wrecks in order to kill the crew and steal their cargo.