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    Joan Harrison emerges from Hitchcock’s shadow in ‘Phantom Lady’

    Feb 04, 2020 3 minutes

    The barrier-breaking career of film and television producer-writer Joan Harrison is notable for its mix of good fortune and dogged persistence.

    Lacking any connections to the film industry in the United States or her native England, Harrison found her way into the business through sheer happenstance: A friend showed her a newspaper ad for what turned out to be a secretarial job for legendary director Alfred Hitchcock. 

    Harrison parlayed the job with Hitchcock – which, at first, involved such tasks as opening mail and answering the

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