Joan Harrison (other)
Joan Harrison may refer to: * Joan Harrison (screenwriter) (1907–1994), English screenwriter and producer * Joan Harrison (swimmer) Joan Cynthia Harrison (later ''Breetzke'', born 29 November 1935) is a retired South African swimmer who won the 100 m backstroke event at the 1952 Olympics. Harrison's mother was a swimmer and her father played rugby. Joan went to Claren ...

Joan Harrison (screenwriter)
Joan Harrison (20 June 1907 – 14 August 1994) was an English screenwriter and producer. She became the first female screenwriter to be nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar when the category was introduced in 1940, and was the first screenwriter to received two Academy Award nominations in the same year in separate categories, for co-writing the screenplay for the films ''Foreign Correspondent'' (1940) (original) and ''Rebecca'' (1940) (adapted), both directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with whom she had a long professional relationship. Biography Born in Guildford, Surrey, Harrison was the daughter of a publisher of two local newspapers. She studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford and reviewed films for the student newspaper. She also studied at the Sorbonne. In 1933, she became Alfred Hitchcock's secretary after answering a newspaper advertisement. She began reading books and scripts for him and became one of Hitchcock's most trusted associates. Harrison appears in a sc ...
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