Hitchcock Comes to Hollywood: Rebecca (1940)

Hitchcock’s first Hollywood project was an adaptation of Daphne DuMaurier’s novel. Beautiful young Joan Fontaine marries English nobleman Laurence Olivier but lives in the shadow of his first wife who died under mysterious circumstances. She arrives at Manderley looking forward to a life of wedded bliss but instead comes under the scrutiny of sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers. Selznick got his Oscar, but Hitch was denied Best Director.