Du Maurier
The first film adaptation, Henry Koster's "My Cousin Rachel" starring Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland, was released in 1952. Du Maurier and original director George Cukor reviewed a screenplay draft and found it unfaithful to the novel, with du Maurier declaring it "Quite desperate." Nevertheless, critics Bosley Crowther and Leonard Maltin felt it was a worthy adaptation.