Rebecca / Notorious

REBECCA, 1940, Walt Disney Co., 130 min. Director Alfred Hitchcock’s Gothic romance asks the question: Did guilt-ridden, rich widower Laurence Olivier do away with his notorious wife Rebecca, or not? And what secrets does sinister, manipulating housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Judith Anderson) hold that may unlock the mystery? Naïve young Joan Fontaine wants to know because she’s in love with Olivier and has just moved into his haunted seacliff mansion as his second wife.

NOTORIOUS, 1946, Walt Disney Co., 101 min. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. An intoxicating love story that mirrors the personal subterfuge and emotional upheaval amongst the three major characters. Hard-nosed Allied agent Cary Grant convinces Ingrid Bergman, the disillusioned daughter of a supposed traitor, to marry, then spy on a wealthy friend of her father’s (Claude Rains) who is leading Nazi Germany’s search for weapons-grade uranium in Brazil. The catch is Grant and Bergman are in love with each other.