 This was the first film Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv) made with  David O. Selznick (qv). Alfred Hitchcock worked with Screenwriter  Robert E. Sherwood (I) (qv) and Hitchcocks assistant  Joan Harrison (I) (qv) in the scripting process. But Alfred  Hitchcock was immediately dissatisfied during the shoot with  David O. Selznick (qv)s controlling form of "producing".