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
Mistress of Mellyn the United Kingdom. The novel was serialized in the "Ladies' Home Journal", chosen as a Reader's Digest condensed book and issued in a treasury volume that included other Gothic authors such as Daphne du Maurier, Phyllis A. Whitney, Evelyn Anthony, Madeleine Brent and Jessica Nelson North. Several reprints were issued over the years. It was issued in ebook format by St. Martin's Griffin, New York in 2009 and St. Martin's Press, New York in 2013. The novel's setting in Cornwall made the resemblance to "Rebecca" so remarkable that it was speculated that "Victoria Holt" was a pseudonym for Daphne du