Johanna Harwood

Harwood was married to the French film director René Clément whom she met on the set of Knave of Hearts (a.k.a. Monsieur Ripois). In 2007 she created the Fondation René Clement to commemorate her husband who died in 1996.

Harwood co-wrote the French film Ne jouez pas avec les Martiens (1967). She also translated into English three novels by French author Nicole Vidal: The Goddess Queen (1961), Nefertiti (1965) and Ring of Jade (1969). Harwood spent the next 20 years working for the Reader's Digest in Paris condensing French novels.

Harwood told the Irish Digest magazine in 1966 that she hoped to direct a film soon. "That's really what I want more than anything."

Harwood also made uncredited contributions to the screenplay of Saltzman's The Ipcress File (1965).

Between 1960 and 1961 Harwood and Saltzman adapted the play The Marriage Game - originally by Mel Tolkin and Lucille Kallen - a comedy about "six girls in search of husbands." The play opened at the Kings Theatre, Southsea, on 25 September 1961. According to Plays and Players, the comedy was scheduled to visit Liverpool, Eastbourne and Brighton "before coming into the West End." Anthony Sharp directed with sets by Disley Jones.' Broccoli and Saltzman subsequently hired Terry Southern to write the script which was never filmed.

According to the 1960 British Film and Television Yearbook, she wrote two unfilmed screenplays for Harry Saltzman's Woodfall Film Productions: City of Spades based on the 1957 Colin MacInnes novel to have been directed initially by Tony Richardson, then by Peter Yates; and Articles of War; of this script Harry Saltzman said that it "is a war story with a tremendously different twist. I don't think that there has ever been a war story like this. It has no message and it isn't a documentary - it's pure entertainment."

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); and 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.

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.

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.