Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
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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 ...
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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.
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 · Joan Harrison, Producer at Large. Image: Getty The British-born Harrison was the first woman to be nominated for two screenwriting Oscars in the same year (1941, for Foreign Correspondent and Rebecca ).
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.
Aug 24, 1994 · Joan Harrison, a major writer and producer for Alfred Hitchcock and once the only woman feature film producer in Hollywood, has died at the age of 83. Miss Harrison died Aug. 14 in London, her...
Mar 30, 2020 · Ella Raines plays a secretary whose boss is wrongly accused of murder; while he sits on death row, she works to clear his name. Joan Harrison, screenwriter and the first female producer at...
