Janet Green (screenwriter)

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][2] (made into the film Cast a Dark Shadow).

[1] 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.

[6] Her second husband was the scriptwriter John McCormick, with whom she collaborated on several screenplays.

[6] 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).

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