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Jun 30, 2021 · A “golden-haired ball of fire” is how legendary Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper described Joan Harrison in 1945. By then, Harrison had three films under her belt as a producer, as well as multiple screenwriting credits and the distinction of being the first screenwriter to have two Oscar nominations in the same year (for Rebecca and Foreign Correspondent ). Harrison’s first film as producer, Phantom Lady (1944), set the tone for her subsequent films, which, as Christina Lane argues in ...
Oct 21, 2020 · For Joan Harrison, the fastest rising screenwriter in Alfred Hitchcock’s unit at British Gaumont Pictures in the mid-1930s, the obsession with Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca began the mome…
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.
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.
Mar 30, 2020 · Joan Harrison, screenwriter and the first female producer at Universal Pictures, reads a script in bed at her home in Los Angeles in 1945. Photo: Walter Sanders / The Life Picture Collection via Getty Images
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. In 1941, she was hired as a scriptwriter by MGM. In 1943, she became a producer at Universal. From 1955 to 1962, she produced the...
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.
