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 (1997 miniseries) the daughter of actress Joanna David, who played the same role in the 1979 BBC production of the story. The serial was filmed on location in Charlestown in Cornwall, the Luton Hoo Estate in Bedfordshire, Montacute House, South Somerset, and Rotherfield Park in Hampshire. Interiors were shot at Shepperton Studios. Diana Rigg won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. Rebecca (1997 miniseries) Rebecca is a 1997 British/German television serial directed by Jim O'Brien. The teleplay by Arthur Hopcraft is based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. The serial