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About Joan Harrison
Joan Harrison was an English screenwriter and producer. She was the first female screenwriter to be nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Award following the introduction of the category 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 Foreign Correspondent (1940) (original) and Rebecca (1940) (adapted), both directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with whom she had a long professional relationship.
Everything about Joan Harrison →- Occupation
- film producer, screenwriter, manufacturer, film actor
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- June 26, 1907
- Died
- August 14, 1994