Fluent in the French language, she trained at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques ("I.D.H.E.C") in Paris, France.
[6] Between 1960 and 1961[7] 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."
[8] According to Plays and Players, the comedy was scheduled to visit Liverpool, Eastbourne and Brighton "before coming into the West End."
[10][11] 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,[nb 4] then by Peter Yates;[nb 5] and Articles of War; of this script, Harry Saltzman said that it "is a war story with a tremendously different twist.
Bond co-producer Albert R. Broccoli had originally hired Richard Maibaum and his friend Wolf Mankowitz to write the Dr. No screenplay.
[16] The film's director Terence Young described Harwood as a script doctor who helped put elements more in tune with a British character.
[17] Richard Maibaum felt "put out" that Harwood got an adaptation credit on From Russia with Love which he thought she did not deserve.
She also translated into English three novels by French author Nicole Vidal: The Goddess Queen (1961), Nefertiti (1965) and Ring of Jade (1969).
[6] Harwood was married to the French film director René Clément whom she met on the set of Knave of Hearts (a.k.a.