 In 1944, Edwina Levin MacDonald sued David O. Selznick (qv),  Daphne Du Maurier (qv), United Artists and Doubleday for  plagiarism. MacDonald claimed that the film _Rebecca (1940)_ (qv)  was stolen from her novel "Blind Windows", and sought an undisclosed  amount of accounting and damages. The outcome of the suit has not  been determined.