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Feb 9, 2011 · Police in Lancashire say they have identified Christopher Smith as the killer of Joan Harrison, who was found dead in a garage in 1975. Smith died in 2008, but left a note admitting the crime and had a DNA match at the scene.
Joan Harrison (1907-1994) was an English screenwriter and producer who worked with Alfred Hitchcock on several films and TV shows. She was the first woman to be nominated for two Oscars in different categories and the first female producer in Hollywood.
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Apart from his wife Alma Reville’s lifelong and inestimable contributions to Alfred Hitchcock’s career, Joan Harrison had the longest personal and professional relationship with the Master. Born into a journalistic background and going onto study in related fields, her own future career must have seemed all but assured. But life took a left turn wh...
Film noir means “black [or dark] film,” a reference to the often low key, black and white visual style of the films themselves, and to the alienation and morally compromised obsessions of the protagonists of these often crime-based stories. Drenched in moodiness, rain-slicked streets and shadowy atmosphere, this film noir thriller revolves around C...
Will she survive the terrifying secret? The forbidding regions of the Louisiana bayous drip with cold, suspense and moody intrigue as Merle Oberon slips into Dark Waters. After surviving a torpedo attack at sea which kills her parents, a psychologically unstable young heiress (Oberon) decides to rest at the Louisiana plantation of an aunt and uncle...
George Raft plays a hard-boiled detective in Nocturne. A womanizing composer is found dead. The cops call it suicide, but Lt. Joe Warne (Raft) thinks otherwise. He’s convinced that the composer, a modern day Don Juan, was bumped off by one of his girlfriends. But which of the ten gorgeous dolls did it? His investigation leads to his suspension from...
Hollywood actor turned idiosyncratic auteur Robert Montgomery (Free and Easy, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Here Comes Mr. Jordan) directs and stars in this striking crime drama based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes. He plays a tough-talking former GI who comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend; things quickly turn ...
Adam Heyward, a leading American lawyer, hears that the man who saved his life at Anzio beach is now facing a murder charge and decides to come to England to defend him. Arriving in a picture-postcard village, he learns of a female witness whose evidence might exonerate his friend, but who had fled the scene of the alleged crime in fear. In his eff...
Learn about Joan Harrison, the unsung hero of Hitchcock's films and TV shows. She was a screenwriter, producer, and his longest and most frequent partner in Hollywood.
Joan Harrison was an English film producer and screenwriter who worked with Alfred Hitchcock from 1933 to 1956. She wrote screenplays for six of his films, including Rebecca and Foreign Correspondent, and produced the Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series.
Joan Harrison was a secretary, scriptwriter, producer and assistant to Alfred Hitchcock. She worked on films such as Rebecca, Suspicion and The Birds, and the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
- June 26, 1907
- August 14, 1994
British movie producer, screenwriter, and scenarist who worked for Alfred Hitchcock for several years. Born Joan Mary Harrison in Guildford, Surrey, England, on June 20, 1908; died on August 14, 1994, in London, England; daughter of Walter and Maelia (Muir) Harrison.
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Joan Harrison was a screenwriter and producer who worked with Alfred Hitchcock and created strong female characters in films like Rebecca and Phantom Lady. She also produced TV shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Janet Dean, Registered Nurse.
