Joan Harrison

Joan Harrison

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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 co-writing the screenplay for the films Foreign Correspondent (1940) (original) and Rebecca (1940) (adapted), both directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with whom she had a long professional relationship. From Wikipedia.

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Rebecca

Rebecca

1940

Suspicion

Suspicion

1941

Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn

1939

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent

1940

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much

1934

Saboteur

Saboteur

1942

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