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Dorset Features in New Netflix Film ‘Rebecca’

Two years after Daphne du Maurier’s gothic novel, the most popular film in the UK in 1940 was ‘Rebecca’, directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. 

Netflix has produced an adaptation, shot last summer and this time starring Armie Hammer, Lily James, and Kristin Scott Thomas. Many locations including Mapperton House, Beaminster are used.  Mapperton provides the scene for a garden party on the lawns by the Orangery when the characters wed.  Due for release on October 21st, there is a trailer:

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Wendy Shields

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