Janet Green (1908–1993) was a British screenwriter and playwright best known for the scripts for the BAFTA nominated films ''

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'', and for the play ''Murder Mistaken'' (made into the film ''

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Biography

She was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire on 4 July 1908. Originally an actress, on stage from 1931, she made appearances in the

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(1930–34) and was involved with entertainment for the armed forces in WW II. She gave up acting in 1945 to focus on writing.https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk › download › GB 1456 JGREEN Her second husband was the scriptwriter John McCormick, with whom she collaborated on several screenplays. They were both under contract to the

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from 1956–59. Green wrote and collaborated with her husband on screenplays for three of the "social issue" films of producer

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and director

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: ''

'' (dealing with racial tension in 1950s London), ''

'' (the first mainstream examination of homosexuality) and ''

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'' (religious intolerance). They have been described as "three of the finest films in British cinema." Of ''Sapphire'', the ''

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'' wrote in 1959, "Perhaps the screenplay writer, one Janet Green, deserves her own special notice for a picture that is so special." She and her husband wrote

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's final film ''

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'' (1966). Green died in Beaconsfield on 30 May 1993.

Filmography

Theatre

References

External links

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Janet Green Collection
at the

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