Daphne du Maurier Now" (1973). Of the films, du Maurier often complained that the only ones she liked were Hitchcock's "Rebecca" and Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now". Hitchcock's treatment of "Jamaica Inn" was disavowed by both director and author, due to a complete re-write of the ending to accommodate the ego of its star, Charles Laughton. Du Maurier also felt that Olivia de Havilland was wrongly cast as the anti-heroine of "My Cousin Rachel". "Frenchman's Creek" fared better in a lavish Technicolor version released in 1944. Du Maurier later regretted her choice of Alec Guinness as the lead in the film of "The
Frenchman's Creek (novel) Bruce, Rathbone's old Sherlock Holmes film partner, in their only non-Holmes/Watson screen appearance together. A television film of 1998 starred Tara FitzGerald as Dona, James Fleet as her husband, and Anthony Delon as the Frenchman. Whilst possibly more historically accurate, it varied greatly from the Du Maurier original. Frenchman's Creek (novel) Frenchman's Creek is a 1941 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier. Set in Cornwall during the reign of Charles II, it tells the story of a love affair between an impulsive English lady, Dona, Lady St. Columb, and a French pirate, Jean-Benoit Aubéry. Dona, Lady St. Columb, makes a