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) as "a sinister tale about a woman who marries a widower...Psychological and rather macabre." Some commentators have noted parallels with Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre". Another of du Maurier's works, "Jamaica Inn," is also linked to one of the Brontë sisters' works, Emily's "Wuthering Heights". Du Maurier commented publicly in her lifetime that the book was based on her own memories of Menabilly and Cornwall, as well as her relationship with her father. While du Maurier "categorised "Rebecca" as a study in jealousy... she admitted its origins in her own life to few." Her husband had been "engaged before – to