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
Bedelia Du Maurier victims by removing the ice pick that Lecter had jammed into the side of the man's head. When Crawford and Graham close in on Lecter, Du Maurier informs Lecter that she won't flee Italy with him. To create an alibi for herself, she injects herself with psychotropic drugs in order to make it appear as if Lecter had been drugging her into submission the whole time. Crawford and Graham question Du Maurier while she is under the influence. The Italian police – bought off by Lecter's surviving victim Mason Verger (Joe Anderson) – interrogate Du Maurier, and she informs the