Joanna Crawford

Movies

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
Teleplay
This biopic about actress Sophia Loren covers her life from childhood through international stardom, her marriage to Carlo Ponti following a romantic fling with Cary Grant, and the birth of her first child, and is tied together with actual clips from some of her movies.
Friendships, Secrets and Lies
Screenplay
Six former sorority sisters are suspected of murder when a baby's skeleton is found in the ruins of the sorority house.
Birch Interval
Screenplay
A young girl is sent to live with Amish relatives in post-war Pennsylvania, where her life dramatically changes.
Birch Interval
Novel
A young girl is sent to live with Amish relatives in post-war Pennsylvania, where her life dramatically changes.
The Little Ark
Writer
This heart-rending family-oriented drama chronicles the adventure of two Dutch children who temporarily lose their father and mother during the great flood of 1953. Fortunately, they and their animals are taken in by a salty old boatman who helps them reunite with their father.
My Side of the Mountain
Writer
Film adaption of the novel by Jean Craighead George. A family movie made by Paramount Studios, the story revolves around thirteen-year old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau, as many were back in the in 1960's. Sam decides to leave the city (set in Toronto) to spend a sabbatical in the Canadian woods and see if he can make it as a self-sufficient spirit after his parents promise a summer trip that doesn't pan out.
Dear Heart
Emile Zola Bernkrant
A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.