| Janet Green | |
| Birth Name: | Ethel Victoria Green |
| Birth Date: | 1908 7, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England |
| Death Place: | Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Occupation: | Screenwriter, playwright, actress |
| Spouse: | John McCormick |
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[1] (made into the film Cast a Dark Shadow).[2]
She was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire on 4 July 1908.[3]
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.[4] She gave up acting in 1945 to focus on writing.[5]
Her second husband was the scriptwriter John McCormick, with whom she collaborated on several screenplays.[6] [7] They were both under contract to the Rank Organisation from 1956 to 1959.[5]
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).[8] [9] They have been described as "three of the finest films in British cinema."[10] 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."[10]
She and her husband wrote John Ford's final film 7 Women (1966).[11]
Green died in Beaconsfield on 30 May 1993.[3]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | The Clouded Yellow | original story and screenplay |
| 1953 | The Good Beginning | story and screenplay |
| 1955 | Cast a Dark Shadow | based on her play Murder Mistaken |
| 1956 | Lost | original screenplay |
| 1956 | The Long Arm | screenplay by Janet Green and Robert Barr |
| 1956 | Eyewitness | original story and screenplay |
| 1958 | The Gypsy and the Gentleman | screenplay by Janet Green based on novel by Nina Warner Hooke |
| 1959 | Sapphire | original screenplay - nominated for a BAFTA award for best British screenplay in 1960 [12] |
| 1960 | Midnight Lace | based on her 1958 play Matilda Shouted Fire[13] |
| 1961 | Victim | screenplay by Janet Green and John McCormick - nominated for a BAFTA award for best British screenplay in 1962 [14] |
| 1962 | Life for Ruth | screenplay by Janet Green and John McCormick |
| 1966 | 7 Women | screenplay by Janet Green and John McCormick |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Murder Mistaken | produced in the UK and the USA / adapted for television and for film (as Cast a Dark Shadow) |
| 1958 | Matilda Shouted Fire | adapted for film as Midnight Lace |