Joan Harrison (screenwriter)
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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,
Joan Harrison, second from left, at dinner with the Hitchcocks (24 August 1937)
Rebecca (1940 film)
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Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock's first American project, and his first film under contract with producer David O. Selzni
Joan Harrison (screenwriter)
…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. Born in Guildford, Surrey, Harrison was the…
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In Monte Carlo, Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) stops to speak to Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates) only after recognizing her companion (Joan Fontaine), the woman he had encountered earlier.
The new Mrs. de Winter is intimidated by the grandeur of Manderley and its staff.
Danvers tricks the insecure second Mrs. de Winter into wearing the same costume Rebecca wore at her last costume ball.