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    Joan Harrison (screenwriter)

    English screenwriter and producer (1907–1994)

    Joan Harrison (20 June 1907 – 14 August 1994) was an English screenwriter and producer. She became the first female screenwriter to be nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar when the category was introduced in 1940, and was the first screenwriter to receive two Academy Award nominations in the same year in separate categories, for co-writing the screenplay for the films Foreign Correspondent (1940) (original) and Rebecca (1940) (adapted), both directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with whom she had a long professional relationship.

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    Born in Guildford, Surrey, Harrison was the daughter of a publisher of two local newspapers.[1] She studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford and reviewed films for the student newspaper. She also studied at the Sorbonne. In 1933, she became Alfred Hitchcock's secretary after answering a newspaper advertisement.[2] She began reading

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    Jan Harrison Profile

    (Janet H. Harrison)
    20 December 24is born in Peterson's Landing, Washington
    ?switches from school teacher to model
    Late 40sworks as an Earl Carroll showgirl, appearing nightly at Carroll's restaurant on Sunset Boulevard
    ?marries Carl R. Bergquist, a successful veterinarian in Norwalk, California
    28 October 47her daughter, Karen Edith, is born in Los Angeles
    ?is crowned "Miss Washington State"
    ?is disqualified from the "Miss America" pageant because of a secret marriage
    October 51as Jan Bergquist of Longview, Washington, she advertises for Noxzema in national newspapers. "The Noxzema Home Facial helped my dry, flaky skin so much. I'm a confirmed Noxzema user, now."
    18 December 51her son, Craig Reed, is born. He will become a dentist in Southern California.
    ?has a screen test but nothing comes from it as her type is judged as “not definable”
    ?is on stage in Somerset Maugham’s Rain in a tiny ba
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    Jan Harrison

    American painter and sculptor

    Jan Harrison (born December 18, 1944, in West Palm Beach, Florida) is an American painter and sculptor whose work, which primarily features djur imagery, centers on the animal soul, consciousness and voice as they relate to human existence and the collective psyche.[1] Her art fryst vatten informed bygd the philosophy of deep ecology, and a monograph detailing her work describes it as “excavat(ing) the arcane kingdom of the human psyche, so long tyrannized bygd the repressive and oppressive forces of socialization."[2] She has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, and her work is featured in In The Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art.[3] Harrison speaks and sings in a language of vocables, "Animal Tongues," which she performs with her visual art. She has received six grants in the arts, and is the Inaugural Recipient of the Recharge Foundation Fellowship for New Surrealist Art, New York Foun