Johanna Harwood was born and raised in County Wicklow in the Irish countryside.
12 Facts About Johanna Harwood
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Johanna Harwood co-wrote two James Bond films, and went uncredited for adaptation work on a third.
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Johanna Harwood did assistant continuity on the Albert R Broccoli productions The Red Beret and Hell Below Zero.
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Johanna Harwood stayed on as his secretary and eventually his reader in the late 1950s.
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Johanna Harwood eventually persuaded him to let her write a film script.
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Richard Maibaum felt "put out" that Johanna Harwood got an adaptation credit on From Russia with Love for which he thought she did not deserve.
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Johanna Harwood stated in an interview in a Cinema Retro special on the making of the film that she had been a screenwriter of several of Harry Saltzman's projects, and noted both her screenplays for Dr No and her screenplay for From Russia with Love had followed Fleming's novels closely.
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Johanna Harwood made uncredited contributions to the screenplay of Saltzman's The Ipcress File.
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Johanna Harwood told the Irish Digest magazine in 1966 that she hoped to direct a film soon.
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Johanna Harwood co-wrote the French film Ne jouez pas avec les Martiens.
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Johanna Harwood translated into English three novels by French author Nicole Vidal: The Goddess Queen, Nefertiti and Ring of Jade.
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Johanna Harwood spent the next 20 years working for the Reader's Digest in Paris condensing French novels.