Margaret Booth

Margaret Booth
Born	January 16, 1898(1898-01-16) Los Angeles, California, United States
Died	October 28, 2002(2002-10-28) (aged 104) Los Angeles, California, United States

Margaret Booth (16 January 1898 – 28 October 2002) was an American film editor.

Born in Los Angeles, California, she started her Hollywood career as a 'patcher', editing films by D. W. Griffith, around 1915. Later she worked for Louis B. Mayer when he was an independent film producer.

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.

Among films she edited were Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award), The Way We Were (1973), and The Goodbye Girl (1977). She also produced several films, including The Slugger's Wife in 1985 at age 87.

Booth received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1978 for her work in film editing. She is the longest-lived person ever to have been given an Oscar. In 1983 she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.^[1] In 1990, Booth was honored with the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award. Interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood California.

References

1. ^ http://wif.org/past-recipients

External links

Biography portal

• Margaret Booth at the Internet Movie Database
• Brownlow, Kevin (2002). "Margaret Booth: Tough, unsentimental film editor who began her career 'patching' during the First World War", The Guardian November 2, 2002.
• Gomery, Douglas (2000). "Margaret Booth," 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.
• Lewis, Kevin (2006). "The Moviola Mavens and the Moguls: Three Pioneering Women Editors Who Had the Respect of Early Hollywood's Power-Brokers", in Editors Guild Magazine, Vol 27, No. 2 (March–April 2006). Archived at WebCite from this original URL 2008-06-22.
• Margaret Booth at Find a Grave

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Name	Booth, Margaret
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Date of birth	1898-01-16
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of death	2002-10-28
Place of death	Los Angeles, California, United States