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Joan Harrison is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer British born on 26 june 1907 at Guildford (United-kingdom)
Joan Harrison (26 June 1907 – 14 August 1994) was an English film producer and screenwriter.
When Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in March 1939 to begin his contract with David O. Selznick to direct films, Harrison went with him as an assistant and writer.
She gained the title of screenwriter when she wrote the film Jamaica Inn (1939) based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. Harrison continued writing screenplays for films Rebecca (1940), also adapted from a du Maurier novel, Foreign Correspondent (1940), Suspicion (1941), Saboteur (1942), Dark Waters (1944), and Nocturne (1946).
Harrison was an uncredited screenwriter for Ride the Pink Horse (1947) and Your Witness (1950). She became a film producer in 1944 with Phantom Lady, and produced such films as The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945), Nocturne (1946), Ride the Pink Horse (1947), and They Won't Believe Me (1947). At the time she was one of only three female producers in Hollywood, the others being Virginia Van Upp and Harriet Parsons.
Harrison worked in television with Hitchcock together with Norman Lloyd when she produced his TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. She and Lloyd were later producers on the Hammer TV anthology Journey to the Unknown, which ran for a single season in 1968.
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 26 june 1907 at Guildford (United-kingdom)
Death 14 august 1994 (at 87 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Birth 26 june 1907 at Guildford (United-kingdom)
Death 14 august 1994 (at 87 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Biography
Born in Guildford, Surrey, Harrison studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford and reviewed films for the student newspaper. She also studied at the Sorbonne. In 1933 Harrison became the secretary of Alfred Hitchcock. Eventually she began reading books and scripts for him and became one of Hitchcock's most trusted associates.When Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in March 1939 to begin his contract with David O. Selznick to direct films, Harrison went with him as an assistant and writer.
She gained the title of screenwriter when she wrote the film Jamaica Inn (1939) based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. Harrison continued writing screenplays for films Rebecca (1940), also adapted from a du Maurier novel, Foreign Correspondent (1940), Suspicion (1941), Saboteur (1942), Dark Waters (1944), and Nocturne (1946).
Harrison was an uncredited screenwriter for Ride the Pink Horse (1947) and Your Witness (1950). She became a film producer in 1944 with Phantom Lady, and produced such films as The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945), Nocturne (1946), Ride the Pink Horse (1947), and They Won't Believe Me (1947). At the time she was one of only three female producers in Hollywood, the others being Virginia Van Upp and Harriet Parsons.
Harrison worked in television with Hitchcock together with Norman Lloyd when she produced his TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. She and Lloyd were later producers on the Hammer TV anthology Journey to the Unknown, which ran for a single season in 1968.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
, 1h12Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Films about families
Actors Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Nova Pilbeam, Frank Vosper, Pierre Fresnay
Roles Secretary (uncredited)
Rating66%
Bob and Jill Lawrence (Leslie Banks and Edna Best) are a British couple on vacation in Switzerland, with their daughter Betty (Nova Pilbeam). Jill is participating in a clay pigeon shooting contest. They befriend a foreigner, Louis Bernard (Pierre Fresnay), who is staying in their hotel. One evening, as Jill dances with Louis, she witnesses him being killed. Before dying, Louis passes onto them some vital information to be delivered to the British consul.
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Your Witness (1950)
, 1h40Directed by Robert Montgomery
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Actors Robert Montgomery, Leslie Banks, Felix Aylmer, Andrew Cruickshank, Patricia Cutts, Harcourt Williams
Rating62%
Nocturne (1946)
, 1h27Directed by Edwin L. Marin, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney, Myrna Dell, Mabel Paige
Rating64%
A Hollywood film composer is found dead. The police think it is suicide but a cop, Joe Warne (Raft), suspects murder. Warne begins looking for "Dolores," a name in a song by the dead man. While investigating, Warne finds out the dead man has had a list of models as girlfriends and that ten of them have a motive for the suspected murder.
Dark Waters (1944)
, 1h30Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir
Actors Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter, Elisha Cook, Jr., John Qualen
Roles Ecrivain
Rating64%
A shaken survivor of a ship sunk by a submarine travels to her aunt and uncle's Louisiana plantation to recuperate, but her relatives have other ideas.
Saboteur (1942)
, 1h48Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres War, Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Circus films, Spy films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Aviation films, Political films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Otto Kruger, Norman Lloyd, Ian Wolfe
Rating70%
During World War II, aircraft factory worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) is accused of starting a fire at the Stewart Aircraft Works in Glendale, California, an act of sabotage that killed his friend Mason (Virgil Summers). Kane believes the real culprit is a man named Fry (Norman Lloyd) who, during their efforts to put out the fire, handed him a fire extinguisher filled with gasoline, that he passed on to Mason. When the investigators find no one named "Fry" on the list of plant workers, they assume Kane is guilty.
Suspicion (1941)
, 1h39Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, May Whitty, Isabel Jeans
Rating72%
Handsome, irresponsible playboy Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant) meets dowdy Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine) on a train, and charms her into running away and marrying him, despite the strong disapproval of her wealthy father, General McLaidlaw (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After a lavish honeymoon and returning to an extravagant house, Lina discovers that Johnnie has no job, no income, habitually lives on borrowed money, and was intending to try to sponge off her father. She talks him into getting a job, and he goes to work for his cousin, estate agent Captain Melbeck (Leo G. Carroll).
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
, 1h59Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres War, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Spy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann, Robert Benchley
Rating73%
The editor of the New York Globe, Mr. Powers (Harry Davenport), is concerned about the "crisis" in Europe, the growing power of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, and the inability of celebrated foreign correspondents to get answers about whether or not war will ensue. After searching for a good, tough crime reporter for a fresh viewpoint, he appoints Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea) as a foreign correspondent, under the pen name Huntley Haverstock.
Rebecca (1940)
, 2h10Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Les fantasmes, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement
Actors Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, Nigel Bruce, Gladys Cooper
Rating80%
A naïve young woman (Joan Fontaine), whose name is never mentioned, is in Monte Carlo working as a paid companion to Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates) when she meets the aristocratic but brooding widower Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter (Laurence Olivier). They fall in love, and within two weeks they are married.
Jamaica Inn (1939)
, 1h48Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Historical, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Emlyn Williams, Leslie Banks, Robert Newton, Basil Radford
Rating62%
Jamaica Inn is the headquarters of a gang of wreckers led by the innkeeper Joss Merlyn (Leslie Banks). The wreckers are responsible for a series of engineered shipwrecks in which they extinguish coastal warning beacons to cause ships to run aground on the rocky Cornish coast. Then they kill the surviving sailors and steal the cargo from the wrecks.
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Circle of Danger (1951)
, 1h26Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring, Hugh Sinclair, Naunton Wayne, Edward Rigby
Roles Producer
Rating64%
Clay Douglas enquête sur la mort mystérieuse de son frère. Ce dernier faisait partie des commandos britanniques pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et il a été tué par une balle anglaise. Clay est persuadé que l'assassin se trouve parmi les survivants.
Your Witness (1950)
, 1h40Directed by Robert Montgomery
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Actors Robert Montgomery, Leslie Banks, Felix Aylmer, Andrew Cruickshank, Patricia Cutts, Harcourt Williams
Roles Producer
Rating62%
Once More, My Darling (1949)
, 1h32Directed by Robert Montgomery, Michael Gordon, John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Robert Montgomery, Ann Blyth, Jane Cowl, Charles McGraw, Roland Winters, Steven Geray
Roles Producer
Rating65%
The last thing Collier "Collie" Lang wants to do is get married, but Marita "Killer" Connell has other ideas.
They Won't Believe Me (1947)
, 1h35Directed by Irving Pichel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer, Rita Johnson, Tom Powers, George Tyne
Roles Producer
Rating71%
After the prosecution rests its case in the murder trial of Larry Ballentine (Robert Young), the defense attorney puts his client on the stand to tell his story.
Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
, 1h41Directed by Robert Montgomery
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark, Andrea King, Richard Gaines
Roles Producer
Rating71%
Gagin (Robert Montgomery) arrives on a bus in San Pablo, a small rural town in New Mexico during its annual fiesta. He plans to confront and blackmail money from a mobster named Frank Hugo (Fred Clark) as retribution for the death of his best friend Shorty.
Nocturne (1946)
, 1h27Directed by Edwin L. Marin, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney, Myrna Dell, Mabel Paige
Roles Producer
Rating64%
A Hollywood film composer is found dead. The police think it is suicide but a cop, Joe Warne (Raft), suspects murder. Warne begins looking for "Dolores," a name in a song by the dead man. While investigating, Warne finds out the dead man has had a list of models as girlfriends and that ten of them have a motive for the suspected murder.