Rebecca (novel) his deceased wife, Rebecca. The supernatural reaction of the portrait doesn't convince him and so he places her in a cupboard. The 1970 Parallel Time storyline of the Gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" was heavily inspired by "Rebecca" including the costume ball scene. Also the second "Dark Shadows" motion picture, "Night of Dark Shadows" took inspiration from the novel including a mention by Kate Jackson's character who hopes the housekeeper is not like Mrs. Danvers The fifth episode of the second series of "That Mitchell and Webb Look" contains an extended sketch parodying the 1940 film, in which Rebecca is
Sisters (Lynne Cheney novel) her "best work," New American Library announced in April 2004 that it would not be republishing the book after all. In a February 9, 2005 interview on NPR with Terry Gross, Cheney denied that "Sisters" contained a lesbian relationship. Cheney suggested that the relationship between the two characters was in question and a historical mystery. She also suggested that "Sisters" was her one bad book, written in an "attempt to take the novel "Rebecca" (by Daphne du Maurier) and put it in a Western setting." In an interview that took place on October 27, 2006 with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's