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The Hays Code also expected variations about adaptations of other media. For example, Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca could not retain a major factor from Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel where the narrator discovers that her partner (the aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter) killed his initially wife (the titular Rebecca) and she or he would make light o