Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Leave it to Alfred Hitchcock to make a movie about newlywed bliss turned into homoerotic paranoia.
And leave it to Mr. Hitchock to leave us feeling conflicted about a queer character both awesome and awful. Rebecca tells the story of Mrs.
de Winter (Joan Fontaine at her best), the new bride of the dashing widower Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier). What should be a fairytale life for Mrs.
de Winter turns dark when she arrives at her new home, a gothic mansion overseen by the spinsterly housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Dame Judith Anderson, in her best screen performance).