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Feb 4, 2020 · Harrison parlayed the job with Hitchcock – which, at first, involved such tasks as opening mail and answering the telephone – into work as a producer-writer on his most distinctive films of ...
Mar 4, 2020 · Three of these screenings will be introduced by Christina Lane, the author of Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock. Reviewing the new book for Newsday, Gerald Bartell notes that Lane “claims Harrison is ‘one of the last great untold stories of the classical Hollywood era.’ Lane’s keenly ...
Feb 4, 2020 · Harrison worked with and played with all the big names—David O. Selznick, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Joan Fontaine, Robert Montgomery, and John Huston—along with Hitchcock and is an important reminder that film is the ultimate collaborative art.” —Cari Beauchamp, author of Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of ...
- Christina Lane
Feb 4, 2020 · In 1933, Joan Harrison was a 26-year-old former salesgirl with a dream of escaping her stodgy London suburb and the dreadful prospect of settling down with one of the local boys. A few short years later, she was Alfred Hitchcock’s confidante and the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of his first American film, Rebecca.
Feb 4, 2020 · Christina is the Edgar®-Award winning author of [Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock] (Chicago Review Press). Phantom Lady is the first biography of one of the most influential women of Hollywood's golden era, the woman who, working behind the scenes, shaped the screen style of Alfred Hitchcock ...
The Times (02/Sep/1994) - Obituary: Joan Harrison. Joan Harrison, one of the first women producers in Hollywood and long-time creative associate of Alfred Hitchcock, died in London on August 14 aged 83. She was born in Guildford in June 20, 1911. Joan Harrison was unique among Alfred Hitchcock's professional associates behind the camera, in ...
Christina Lane is the Edgar®-Award winning author of the biography Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock. Her previous publications include the books Magnolia, a critical evaluation of the Paul Thomas Anderson film, and Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break .
