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Joan Harrison’s story is incomplete without considering the importance of Alfred Hitchcock’s wife — and chief collaborator — Alma Reville. Joan joined Hitch and Alma in fall 1933 just as the director was making a crucial move to Gaumont-British Picture Corporation to develop The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). There, Joan received a crash…

As she made the crossing to America with Alfred Hitchcock, his wife Alma Reville and their daughter Patricia, Joan Harrison already had impressive achievements for someone who had been in the film industry for only five years. Prior to co-writing Jamaica Inn (1939), she had been involved in the development of five films, including The…