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
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