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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 ...
Karriere. 1935 wurde Joan Harrison mit 28 Jahren persönliche Sekretärin von Alfred Hitchcock und eine seiner engsten Mitarbeiterinnen. Von Riff-Piraten (1939) bis Saboteure (1942) wirkte sie an fünf Drehbüchern für Hitchcocks Filme mit.
2. Dez. 2020 · She would become the most loyal and enduring screenwriter and producer Hitchcock ever employed. Harrison would contribute to all of Hitchcock’s late British achievements, including Young and Innocent and The Lady Vanishes, and his early Hollywood successes, notably Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent, and Suspicion.
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.
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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.
4. Feb. 2020 · The first biography of Joan Harrison, 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, master of suspense. Order On. Amazon • Barnes & Noble • Indiebound • Chicago Review Press • Bookshop.
24. Aug. 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,...
