page_title: My Cousin Rachel
section_title: Adaptations
hierarchical_section_title: My Cousin Rachel / Adaptations
caption_attribution_description: English: Trailer screenshot of My Cousin Rachel (1952)
context_page_description: My Cousin Rachel is a novel by British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951. Like the earlier Rebecca, it is a mystery-romance, set primarily on a large estate in Cornwall.
  The story has its origins in a portrait of Rachel Carew at Antony House in Cornwall, which du Maurier saw and took as inspiration.
context_section_description: 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.
  A BBC four-part television adaptation, starring Christopher Guard and Geraldine Chaplin, was broadcast in 1983. Professor Nina Auerbach judged it as "superficially" more faithful, including in a more complex treatment of Rachel.
  A radio adaptation of My Cousin Rachel by BBC Radio 4, aired in 4 December 1993 (19:50), starring Francesca Annis and Adam Godley. Dramatised by Bryony Lavery. Directed by Claire Grove.
  Another radio adaptation of My Cousin Rachel by BBC Radio 4, first aired in April 2011, starring Damian Lewis and Lia Williams. It aired again May 2013 on Radio 4's sister channel Radio 4 extra.
  On 17 April 2012, a dramatic adaptation by Joseph O’Connor, of My Cousin Rachel premièred at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, starring Hannah Yelland as Rachel.
  The first film adaptation since 1952, Roger Michell's My Cousin Rachel starring Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin and Iain Glen, was released in June 2017.
caption: Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland in the first film adaptation, My Cousin Rachel.
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