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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.
Feb 4, 2020 · In Lane’s artful telling, Harrison was a kind of cinematic utility player, responsible for reworking scenes to accommodate the last-minute casting of Madeleine Carroll in “The 39 Steps ...
Oct 16, 2023 · They then start discussing the attack on Joan Harrison back in Preston in 1975, which Hoban and Hobson ruled out. Oldfield seems keen to rule it in, based simply on the fact that Hoban ruled it out, because he’s a detective powered by vibes, arrogance and misogyny rather than actual police work.
Feb 4, 2020 · Joan Harrison has been on my radar for a long time, mostly because she produced some interesting film noirs and because she was so influential to many Hitchcock films. As a biography, this suffers from a tendency to get hagiographic about Harrison and also because the author indulges into too much supposition for my personal taste.
Sep 7, 2021 · Phantom Lady chronicles the untold story of Hollywood’s most powerful female writer-producer of the 1940s. In 1933, Joan Harrison was a twenty-six-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.
May 9, 2023 · By. Rachel Smith Court reporter. Joan (nee Riding) worked as a machinist and shop assistant when she moved to Preston with her first husband. On a cold, damp morning in 1975, the body of Joan Harrison was found beaten to death in a disused garage in Avenham, Preston. Joan, a mother-of-two had been bludgeoned to death and left on the cold garage ...
Dec 28, 2011 · Joan Harrison was a poor vulnerable single girl who was murdered by being kicked to death in a disused garage near the centre of Preston on the 20 November 1975. She had been sexually assaulted to such an extent that semen was found both in her rectum and her vagina.
