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Janet Green (1908–1993) was a British screenwriter and playwright best known for the scripts for the BAFTA nominated films Sapphire and Victim, and for the play Murder Mistaken (made into the film Cast a Dark Shadow).

Biography

She was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire on 4 July 1908.

Originally an actress, on stage from 1931, she made appearances in the Aldwych Farces (1930–34) and was involved with entertainment for the armed forces in WW II. She gave up acting in 1945 to focus on writing.

Her second husband was the scriptwriter John McCormick, with whom she collaborated on several screenplays. They were both under contract to the Rank Organisation from 1956 to 1959.

Green wrote and collaborated with her husband on screenplays for three of the "social issue" films of producer Michael Relph and director Basil Dearden: Sapphire (dealing with racial tension in 1950s London), Victim (the first mainstream examination of homosexuality) and Life for Ruth (religious intolerance). They have been described as "three of the finest films in British cinema." Of Sapphire, the New York Post wrote in 1959, "Perhaps the screenplay writer, one Janet Green, deserves her own special notice for a picture that is so special."

She and her husband wrote John Ford's final film 7 Women (1966).

Green died in Beaconsfield on 30 May 1993.

Filmography

Theatre

References

1. ^ "Janet Green". BFI. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019.
2. "Murder Mistaken". Samuel French. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
3. "Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016.
4. ^ McFarlane, Brian; Slide, Anthony (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526111968 – via Google Books.
5. Wearing, J. P. (15 May 2014). The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810893047 – via Google Books.
6. ^ https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk › download › GB 1456 JGREEN
7. "Janet Green." Times 18 June 1993: 21. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 31 October 2018.
8. "Janet Green | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos". AllMovie.
9. "BFI Screenonline: Dearden, Basil (1911-1971) Biography". www.screenonline.org.uk.
10. ^ Nelmes, Jill; Selbo, Jule (29 September 2015). Women Screenwriters: An International Guide. Springer. ISBN 9781137312372 – via Google Books.
11. "Seven Women". Time Out London.
12. "BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
13. "Midnight Lace". Variety. 1 January 1960.
14. "BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 1 November 2018.

External links

• Janet Green at IMDb
• Janet Green at the Internet Broadway Database
• Janet Green Collection at the British Film Institute (link opens PDF).

• 1908 births
• 1993 deaths
• People from Hitchin
• English dramatists and playwrights
• English women dramatists and playwrights
• British women screenwriters
• Writers from Hertfordshire
• 20th-century British screenwriters
• 20th-century English women
• 20th-century English people