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Author Lane, Christina, author.

Title Phantom lady : Hollywood producer Joan Harrison, the forgotten woman behind Hitchcock / Christina Lane
Published Chicago : Chicago Review Press, an A Capella Book, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (384 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents At home -- Wartime -- Beyond the village -- Birth of a master -- True crime pays -- Bigger steps -- A team of three -- Going Hollywood -- Oscar calls -- Building suspense -- Hitting hurdles -- Phantom lady -- New associations -- Bedeviling endings -- Crimes and misdemeanors -- Let it ride -- Full circle, by degrees -- A new proposal -- Back on top -- Into the unknown
Summary "The untold story of Hollywood's most powerful female writer-producer of the 1940s, Joan Harrison, who grew from being the worst secretary Alfred Hitchcock ever had to one of his closest collaborators, critically shaping his brand as the "Master of Suspense.""-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2020)
Subject Harrison, Joan, 1907-1994.
Women motion picture producers and directors -- Great Britain -- Biography
Women screenwriters -- Great Britain -- Biography
Women motion picture producers and directors
Women screenwriters
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019041982
ISBN 9781613733868
1613733860
9781613733875
1613733879
9781613733851
1613733852