Rebecca

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Turner Classic Movies 2:15 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 22

One of my favorite movies, Rebecca is romantic, creepy, thrilling and among the most beautifully shot films ever made.

It is based on the Daphne du Maurier novel about a young woman who marries a widower and is haunted by his past, his housekeeper and his massive mansion.

Joan Fontaine is among the greatest damsels in distress ever – she eventually won an Oscar for a similar role in Suspicion – and Laurence Olivier is as sexy as he is enigmatic.

As the original evil maid Mrs. Danvers, Judith Anderson is genius. All of this is helmed by Alfred Hitchcock at the pinnacle of his pre-late 1950s career.