Original sentence: Actors who were considered for Maxim de Winter were:.Actresses who auditioned for the role of the Second Mrs.Although the girl's motivations are opposite that of the main character of Rebecca, the action of the scene is the same in both films and they are shot in a similar manner.Anita Louise.Anne Baxter.His cold, venomous mother makes the girl miserable and eventually finds out about her past and tries to kick her out of the household.In a climactic scene the girl slowly and triumphantly descends the stairs from her room (where she has been confined) dressed in a deliberately provocative outfit, as a party of people watch silently.In the film, a woman is shunned from her high class society for being involved in a controversial divorce case and goes to the South of France to be alone.It is unknown whether Daphne du Maurier had seen Easy Virtue in either play or film form, but it seems likely that her first major novel was informed by the plot.Leslie Howard.Loretta Young.Many similarities exist between Rebecca and a much earlier Hitchcock film, Easy Virtue (based on a Noel Coward play), in plot and tone.Margaret Sullavan.Maureen O'Hara: Mentioned in her autobiography that she was the first actress considered for the role of the Second Mrs.Olivia de Havilland.Once there, their relationship changes as he becomes more involved in his family and neglects her.Others who were considered for the role of the Second Mrs.Robert Donat: Selznick's first choice.Ronald Colman: Offered the part of Maxim, but he turned it down.There she accidentally meets and falls in love with a vacationing young man who marries her and takes her home to his family.Vivien Leigh: Olivier's new bride at the time, he wanted her to play the Second Mrs.William Powell.de Winter although she was never given a screen test.de Winter as a consolation role for her not getting to play Cathy in Wuthering Heights (1939).de Winter but failed to get the part were:.de Winter: