![]() Far better that the author of Frenchman's Creek not hear the exasperation of Mitchell Leisen, who was obliged to direct the film. Jamaica Inn, the first du Maurier novel filmed, was significantly altered to make a star part for Charles Laughton. ![]() ![]() Still, a serious writer needs to be wary of the movies - don't look for too many thanks, and keep away from the shooting if you're sensible, because writers' feelings are seldom spared. ![]() Throw in the Hitchcock trio - Jamaica Inn, Rebecca and The Birds - and you have a group where all but one picture did well at the box office, and du Maurier's sales bloomed all over the world. There was Frenchman's Creek (1944), with Joan Fontaine as Dona St Columb and Arturo de Cordova as her Frenchman My Cousin Rachel (1952), with Olivia de Havilland and the young Richard Burton and the story that inspired Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now. ![]() They were good to each other, and du Maurier's books inspired several more films than those made by Hitchcock. There's no doubt about the fondness that existed between Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock - or between the novelist and short-story writer and the movies as a whole. ![]()
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