| Margaret Booth | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 16, 1898 Los Angeles, California |
| Died | October 28, 2002 (aged 104) Los Angeles, California |
Margaret Booth (January 16, 1898 – October 28, 2002) was an American film editor. Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate. Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Events 306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor. 312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate. Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor. 312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Film editing is an art of storytelling practiced by connecting two or more shots together to form a sequence, and the subsequent connecting of sequences to form an
Born in Los Angeles, California, she started her Hollywood career as a 'patcher', editing films by D. W. Griffith, around 1915. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West David Llewelyn Wark "D W" Griffith (January 22 1875 &ndash July 23 1948 was a premier pioneering Academy Award -winning American Film director. Later she worked for Louis B. Mayer when he was an independent film producer. Louis Burt Mayer (born Lazar Meir July 4, 1884 &ndash October 29, 1957) was an early Film producer, most A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies.
When Mayer merged with others to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924, she worked as a director's assistant with that company. She edited several films starring Greta Garbo. Greta Garbo ( 18 September 1905 &ndash 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress during Hollywood 's
Among films she edited were Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 (for which she was nominated for an Academy Award), The Way We Were, and The Goodbye Girl. Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934 The Way We Were is a 1973 American film which tells the story of Katie Morosky an intense Jewish woman who marries Hubbell Gardner a carefree The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 American Comedy film. Directed by Herbert Ross, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason She has also produced several films, including The Slugger's Wife in 1985 at age 87.
She received an Academy Honorary Award in 1978 for her work in film editing; Booth is the longest-lived person ever to have won an Oscar or Academy Award. The Academy Honorary Award, instituted in 1948 for the 21st Academy Awards (previously called the Special Award) is given by the discretion of the In 1990, Booth was honored with the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award. The American Cinema Editors (ACE gives one or more Career Achievement Awards each year
External links
- Gomery, Douglas (2000). "Margaret Booth," in in Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast (editors), International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, Edition 4 (St. James Press), ISBN 978-1558624498. Online version of article retrieved December 24, 2007.
- Margaret Booth at the Internet Movie Database
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