Stage and screen actor who appeared in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much and Young and InnocentAmong the many might-have-beens in film history was the starring of Nova Pilbeam opposite Laurence Olivier in Rebecca (1940), Alfred Hitchcock's first Hollywood film. The producer, David O Selznick, desperately wanted Pilbeam, who has died aged 95, for the female lead of Mrs de Winter, and was willing to offer her a fiv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM on July 26, 2015