Joan Harrison (screenwriter) the film "Jamaica Inn" (1939) based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. When Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in March 1939 to begin his contract with David O. Selznick to direct films, Harrison went with him as an assistant and writer. She continued contributing to the screenplays for Hitchcock's films "Rebecca" (1940), also adapted from a du Maurier novel, "Foreign Correspondent" (1940), "Suspicion" (1941), and "Saboteur" (1942). She was also credited as one of the screenwriters for "Dark Waters" (1944). Harrison was an uncredited screenwriter for "Ride the Pink Horse" (1947) and "Your Witness" (1950). She became a film producer
Daphne du Maurier affair with Gertrude Lawrence, as well as her attraction to Ellen Doubleday, the wife of her U.S. publisher Nelson Doubleday, were cited. Du Maurier stated in her memoirs that her father had wanted a son; being a tomboy, she wished to have been born a boy. "The Daphne du Maurier Companion", edited by Helen Taylor, includes Taylor's claims that du Maurier confessed to her in 1965 that she had had an incestuous relationship with her father and that he had been a violent alcoholic. In correspondence that her family released to biographer Margaret Forster, du Maurier explained to a trusted