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“Phantom Lady sheds welcome light on a woman producer of both motion pictures and television and a key member of Hitchcock’s inner circle. The entertaining narrative spans Hollywood’s Golden Age…

Phantom Lady gives us an opportunity to understand the unique and complicated bond Joan Harrison shared with Alfred Hitchcock. She went from secretary to his star writer, collaborator, assistant, and muse….

“Joan Harrison’s contributions to cinema, particularly in the realm of psychological suspense and film noir, have been overlooked and undervalued for too long. Blame a legacy of male-dominated scholarship. All…

“Joan Harrison never wrote a bad movie. Joan Harrison never produced a bad movie. And when she moved into television as the producer of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” it could honestly…

“At last!  Since I first stepped into a classroom fifty years ago to teach Phantom Lady, I’ve been waiting for someone to write a book about the film’s glamorous producer who…

“Christina Lane puts the spotlight on the previously underappreciated Joan Harrison who thread the needle of Hollywood as a successful writer, producer and valiant friend when this was no small feat….