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
Sally Beauman Sunday Telegraph Magazine". She worked as an investigative journalist, interviewer and critic for many leading publications in Britain and the US, including "The New Yorker". It was an article about the work of Daphne du Maurier in this magazine that eventually led to her writing "Rebecca's Tale", her companion novel to du Maurier's "Rebecca". She wrote an early appreciation of Monique Wittig's second novel, "Les Guérillères", in "The New York Times Book Review". The book was published in France in the wake of the 1968 upheavals, but was not available to English readers until the 1971 translation. Beauman's first work