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 ...
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.
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.
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...
Jul 30, 2021 · The combination of film noir atmosphere with former Alfred Hitchcock screenwriter Joan Harrison’s (Rebecca, Suspicion) producing talents made Nocturne a major hit with 1946 audiences, as well as a film that still entertains today.
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.
Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock. For the second year in a row, MWA has awarded its biographical/critical Edgar to a Hitchcock-related volume, following John Billheimer’s Hitchcock and the Censors, reviewed here in MS #163. Joan Harrison (1907-1998) was hired in 1933 as an assistant to ...
