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) Maurier. "The Times" said that "the material is of the humblest...nothing in this is beyond the novelette." In the "Christian Science Monitor" of 14 September 1938, V. S. Pritchett predicted the novel "would be here today, gone tomorrow." Few critics saw in the novel what the author wanted them to see: the exploration of the relationship between a man who is powerful and a woman who is not. "Rebecca" is listed in the 20th-Century American Bestsellers descriptive bibliography database maintained by the University of Illinois. The entry, by Katherine Huber, provided the detailed information on the English and American editions