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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 ...
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. In 1941, she was hired as a scriptwriter by MGM. In 1943, she became a producer at Universal.
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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...
Dec 2, 2020 · Christina Lane is the author of Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, The Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock, Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break, and Magnolia. She is Chair and Associate Professor of the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of Miami, where she teaches film studies and women's ...
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.
Joan Mary Harrison was an English film producer and screenwriter. Born in Guildford, Surrey, Harrison studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and also at the Sorbonne.
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.
