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Joan Harrison (20 June 1907 – 14 August 1994) was an English screenwriter and producer. She became the first female screenwriter to be nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar when the category was introduced in 1940, and was the first screenwriter to receive two Academy Award nominations in the same year in separate categories, for ...
Joan Harrison. Writer: Rebecca. In 1933, she was hired to be a secretary by Alfred Hitchcock. She soon graduated to reading books and scripts, writing synopses and contributing to scripts. In 1939, she accompanied Hitchcock to Hollywood, working as his assistant and as a writer.
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Aug 25, 1994 · Joan Harrison, a producer and screenwriter who helped write the scripts for "Rebecca," "Foreign Correspondent" and other films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, died on Aug. 14 in London. She was...
Oct 15, 2020 · Phantom Lady was based on the 1942 crime novel by “William Irish” (Cornell Woolrich), but in adapting it to the screen, producer Joan Harrison shifted the story from a male to a female perspective.
Joan Harrison, screenwriter and producer: born Guildford, Surrey 1911; married 1958 Eric Ambler; died London 14 August 1994. JOAN HARRISON lived a life of crime.
Dec 2, 2020 · Now considered by many to be the high point of film noir, this landmark picture launched the American career of director Robert Siodmak and made Joan the most powerful female producer in Hollywood—and the first woman to become a full-fledged producer at a major studio.
As a screenwriter, she contributed stronger women characters to his late British and early American films, notably the adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (1940), and Suspicion (1941), adapted from Francis Iles’ Before the Fact, both of which presented problems with the Production Code and necessitated alternative endings.
