Rebecca (1940 film) not revealed at all. The only thing we know about her is that she came to Manderley when Rebecca was a bride. The Breen Office, Hollywood's censorship board, specifically prohibited any outright hint of a lesbian infatuation or relationship between Mrs. Danvers and Rebecca, though the film clearly does dwell on Danvers' obsessive memories of her late mistress. "The Hollywood Reporter" reported in 1944 that Edwina Levin MacDonald sued Selznick, Daphne du Maurier, United Artists and Doubleday for plagiarism. MacDonald claimed that the film "Rebecca" was stolen from her novel "Blind Windows", and sought an undisclosed amount of accounting and
Rebecca (novel) sea" is also in metrical form; almost but not quite an anapestic tetrameter. Shortly after "Rebecca" was published in Brazil, critic Álvaro Lins pointed out many resemblances between du Maurier's book and the work of Brazilian writer Carolina Nabuco. Nabuco's "A Sucessora" ("The Successor") has a main plot similar to "Rebecca", for example a young woman marrying a widower and the strange presence of the first wife – plot features also shared with the far older "Jane Eyre". Nina Auerbach alleged in her book, "Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress", that du Maurier read the Brazilian book when the first drafts