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Joan Henry
British writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Lived 1914 to 2000 · aged 86
Joan Constance Anne Henry was an English novelist, playwright and screenwriter. A former débutante from an illustrious family, she was jailed for passing a fraudulent cheque in 1951 and her best-known works were based on her experiences in prison.
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Diana Dors Also in The Weak and the Wicked (1954)
Yvonne Mitchell Also in Yield to the Night (1956)
Bill Travers Joan wrote Passionate Summer (1958)- Marjorie Rhodes Also in The Weak and the Wicked (1954)
Athene Seyler Also in The Weak and the Wicked (1954)- Rudolph Cartier Directed Storm Over Jamaica (1958)
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She wrote the semi-autobiographical Who Lie in Gaol, filmed as The Weak and the Wicked, and the novel Yield to the Night, the basis for the film starring Diana Dors.
