Dundee Evening Telegraph (10/Nov/1945) - Hollywood's First British Woman Producer

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• article: Hollywood's First British Woman Producer
• newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph (10/Nov/1945)
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Joan Harrison, Universal Studios

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Hollywood's First British Woman Producer

Miss Joan Harrison, Hollywood's first British woman producer, has now signed if contract to make thrillers — at which she excels — for R.K.O.

Her first film for them will be a new "Nocturne," and George Raft, dark, debonair and smiling sardonically, will be the mystery man.

Born in Guildford 35 years ago, the daughter of a newspaper publisher, Joan Harrison uses a shrewd mind trained at the Sorbonne and Oxford to give her mystery stories their quota of shudders. Her unconventional methods are still impressing Hollywood.

After starting at the Shepherd's Bush Studios as Alfred Hitchcock's typist, she became one of his script writers in Hollywood, and then went to Universal films. With them she was so stubborn about the production of her scripts that they said "All right, make the films yourself." She did.