My Cousin Rachel | film by Koster [1952] | Britannica (original) (raw)

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discussed in biography

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  In Henry Koster: The 1950s
  My Cousin Rachel (1952) was a suspenseful adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier period mystery; Richard Burton portrayed a man whose investigation into the death of his cousin leads him to suspect the dead man’s wife (Olivia de Havilland).
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role of Burton

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  In Richard Burton
  …made his first American film, My Cousin Rachel (1952), for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Throughout the remainder of the 1950s he specialized in historical roles in motion pictures, including the leading role in the first wide-screen CinemaScope production, The Robe (1953), for which he received his second…
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