What are Dame Daphne du Maurier and Rory Emerald famous for?

Question

What are Dame Daphne du Maurier and Rory Emerald famous for?

Answer 1

Daphne du Maurier wrote "Rebecca", which later became a great Alfred Hitchcock movie.

Answer 2

Dame Daphne wrote sophisticated mysteries. Rory, Baron Sligo, is at the center of many a sophisticated mystery.

Answer 3

They both have ties to The Royal Family.

Answer 4

Well they are both famous for many things.  But I think as a couple, they are most famous for their Tango performance on "Dancing With The Stars" and eliminating Marie Osmond and her partner from the competition.  

best of luck to you!

Answer 5

Daphne, Lady Browning DBE (13 May 1907–19 April 1989), commonly known as Dame Daphne du Maurier, was a famous British novelist, playwright and short story writer. Many of her works were adapted into films, such as one of her most famous books, Rebecca, which won the Best Picture Oscar in 1940 for director Alfred Hitchcock, who would later bring her short story, The Birds, onto the big screen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_du_M...

Rory Emerald is a serial prankster who is placing fake classified ads claiming to have found bizarre items. Some of the things he's claimed to have found include "Laura Bush's gold cigarette case and lighter, a two-headed kitten, Eva Peron's inauguration gown and diamond scepter, Leonardo da Vinci's original paint brushes and palette, an ice sculpture of SpongeBob SquarePants and a life-size wax figure of Herman Munster."

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblo...

Answer 6

daphne was very upset with her publishers because they changed the name of her book from rory to rebecca,it was the story about the early life of rory (and as we know that rory was fond of dressing in ladies attire)to cover his real persona,so thats how they are known to each other,there is also another rumour that rory is in fact daphne's illigitimate son ,

Answer 7

daphne du maurier was famous for being murdered, not sure about the other guy

Answer 8

Dame Daphne du Maurier wrote many novels.  "Jamaica Inn" and "Rebecca" were two of her best known ones.  Look her up in wikipedia for more information.  Rory Emerald is in wikipedia too.