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.
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Women motion picture producers and directors -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Women screenwriters -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Women motion picture producers and directors
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Women screenwriters
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2019041982 |
ISBN |
9781613733868 |
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1613733860 |
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9781613733875 |
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1613733879 |
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9781613733851 |
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1613733852 |
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