Within days of completing her work in "Gone with the Wind" in June 1939, deHavilland returned to Warner Bros. and began filming Michael Curtiz's historical drama "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" (also 1939) with Bette Davis and Errol Flynn. She had hoped her work on Selznick's prestige picture would lead to first-rate roles at Warner Bros., but instead, she received third billing below the title as the queen's lady-in-waiting. In early September, she was lent out to Samuel Goldwyn Productions for Sam Wood's romantic caper film "Raffles" (also 1939) with David Niven, about a high-society cricketer and jewel thief. She later complained, "I had nothing to do with that style of film."