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Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer Born: 1911 in Guileford, England Death: August 19, 1994 in England Biography:Educated at the Sorbonne and Oxford, "Joan Harrison" was 21 when she secured a job as secretary to British film director "Alfred Hitchcock". Harrison rapidly became one of the director's most trusted associates -- if not the most trusted. She collaborated on the screenplays of Hitchcock's "Jamaica Inn" (1939), "Rebecca" (1940), "Foreign Correspondent" (1941), "Suspicion" (1941) and "Saboteur" (1942), and also functioned as associate producer. In 1944, Harrison became a full producer at Universal Pictures; true to her Hitchcock heritage, she was responsible for such thrillers as "Phantom Lady" (1944) and "Uncle Harry" (1945). She also nurtured the directorial ambitions of actor "Robert Montgomery", producing Montgomery's Ride the Pink Horse (1947), "Once More My Darling" (1949) and "Eye Witness" (1950). In 1954, Harrison went into partnership with actress "Ella Raines" to produce the popular syndicated... Full Biography
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