In 1969, du Maurier was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.ĭu Maurier came naturally by her dramatic bent. Rebecca won an award from the American Booksellers’ Association in 1939. Her story “Don’t Look Now” became a hit film in 1973.
Hitchcock turned her story “The Birds” into a highly successful motion picture in 1963. My Cousin Rachel became a Twentieth Century Fox production in 1952, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released The Scapegoat in 1959. Universal Pictures released a film adaptation of Hungry Hill in 1947, for which du Maurier herself wrote the first draft of the screenplay. Paramount filmed Frenchman’s Creek in 1944. The latter won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Alfred Hitchcock directed film versions of Jamaica Inn, in 1939, and her best-selling gothic novel Rebecca, in 1940.
The theatrical quality of du Maurier’s ( – 19 April 1989) novels is evidenced by the frequency and reported ease with which her works were adapted for the big screen.
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