ABSTRACT
Joan Harrison is not very well known, but she is best known for her collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock. She developed and cowrote six of his films in the 1930s and 1940s, and later co-produced the Emmy award-winning Alfred Hitchcock Presents televisions series in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1943, however, Harrison struck out on her own to forge a career as an independent film producer. She chose to parlay her association with Hitchcock into a more visible and autonomous role in the production of suspense thrillers. This meant that she also faced the difficult task of distinguishing herself from the “master of suspense.”
