Johanna Harwood

Johanna Harwood
Born	1930 County Wicklow, Ireland
Nationality	British
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1962–2000

Johanna M. Harwood (born 1930) is an Irish screenwriter. She was born and raised in County Wicklow in the Irish countryside. She co-wrote two James Bond films, and went uncredited for adaptation work on a third.

Harwood entered the film industry in 1949. Fluent in the French language, she trained at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques ("I.D.H.E.C") in Paris, France.

According to the Irish Digest, Harwood also studied filmmaking in England, then returned to Dublin to work in the Irish film industry. She became a continuity supervisor on films during the early to mid-1950s including Everybody's Business (a.k.a. Gno Gach Einne);Return to Glennascaul (shot in Ireland), starring Orson Welles;The Flying Eye; Knave of Hearts (shot in London and France); Orson Welles's Mr. Arkadin. She also did assistant continuity on the Albert R. Broccoli productions The Red Beret and Hell Below Zero.

In an interview with Irish Digest magazine, Harwood claims that the shortage of Irish film work reluctantly forced her to move to London where she worked for a talent agent. This at least gave her sufficient time to write. Among the publications she contributed to during the late 1950s and early 1960s was Punch.

At some point the agency closed its London office and Harry Saltzman took over. Harwood stayed on as his secretary and eventually his reader in the late 1950s. She eventually persuaded him to let her write a film script. Saltzman phoned her one night with an idea for a Bob Hope film and asked her to develop it into an outline. Writing as "J. M. Harwood", she wrote a spoof 1959 James Bond short story called Some Are Born Great.

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