Laurence Olivier asks Joan Fontaine to marry him in the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock movie Rebecca ~ Please visit my blog .<br>(1940) A naïve young woman, whose name is never mentioned, is in Monte Carlo working as a paid companion to Edythe Van Hopper when she meets the .<br>Joan Fontaine cast as the unnamed second wife of Max DeWinter played by Laurence Olivier. Before she won the role, Selnick auditioned several actresses.
