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Mrs. Danvers is the main antagonist of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca.Danvers is the head housekeeper at Manderley, the stately manor belonging to the wealthy Maximillian "Maxim" de Winter, where he once lived with his first wife, Rebecca, whom she had adored obsessively.
As they approach Manderley, they see a red glow in the distance and realize that the manor has been set on fire by Mrs. Danvers to destroy the evidence against her. As the servants attempt to extinguish the blaze ("Manderley in Flammen"), Mrs. Danvers stands atop the grand staircase, holding Rebecca's nightgown and setting the handrails on fire.
Manderley is dominated by its housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, a chilly individual who had been a confidante of the first Mrs. de Winter and who resents her "usurper". Danvers feeds the bride's insecurity by showing her Rebecca's grand bedroom suite, preserved unchanged and denied to the new wife, and by retaining items throughout the house that ...
Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel by the English author Daphne du Maurier.It depicts an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower, before discovering that both he and his household are haunted by the memory of his late first wife, the title character.
A "Manderley Castle" features in one of the Anno Dracula books by Kim Newman. Danish film director Lars von Trier 's 2005 film Manderlay is set in a country estate with a large domestic staff. In Stephen King 's 1998 novel, Bag of Bones , "Manderley" is a semi-isolated lake house in Maine, identified with Sara Laughs, in the dreams of the main ...
A suspect accused of killing a woman by setting her on fire on a subway train has been charged with murder in a New York court. Sebastian Zapeta allegedly set the unidentified woman's clothes on ...
Upon returning to Manderley, Max and his wife discover the estate is in flames, the fire set by a vengeful and despairing Mrs. Danvers, who it's fairly clear now was in love with Rebecca. Max races upstairs to rescue the insane woman from Rebecca's bedroom.
Set in 1933, the film takes up the story of Grace and her father after burning the town of Dogville at the end of the previous film. Grace and her father travel in convoy with a number of gunmen through rural Alabama where they stop briefly outside a plantation called Manderlay. As the gangsters converse, a black woman emerges from Manderlay's ...