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Tony Walker's avatar

Hi Hope. I enjoyed your piece on Dont Look Now. How about when I come back from holiday we do an interview about it? A discussion that I could d post on on YouTube with links back to your blog?

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Hope Anderson's avatar

Du Maurier was 57 when her husband died, not 34. I don’t know where you got the date 1931 from; she was born in 1907.

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Tony Walker's avatar

I had a brain event

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Hope Anderson's avatar

While you’re correcting, she was 30, not 21, when she wrote “The Doll”.

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I enjoyed “The Doll” and your reading of it very much. In the comments you say that du Maurier liked Hitchcock’s adaptation of “The Birds” but not “Rebecca”. Actually, it was the other way around--and if you’ve read “The Birds” it’s easy to see why. The story is about man’s destruction of the natural world, not a flock of murderous birds. Hitchcock missed the theme entirely.

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