Alfred Hitchcock’s Hollywood debut, “Rebecca,” turns 80 this year, and with it, Franz Waxman’s score. It is a now-overlooked masterpiece, a lavish yet deeply interior work that anticipates Bernard Herrmann’s more celebrated music for Hitchcock films in its ability to act as an inner narrator. In this story of a deceased femme fatale dominating...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 17, 2020 19:41 UTC