Margaret Booth
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| Born | January 16, 1898 Los Angeles, California |
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| Died | October 28, 2002 (aged 104) Los Angeles, California |
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Margaret Booth (January 16, 1898 – October 28, 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, and The Goodbye Girl. 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. In 1990, Booth was honored with the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award.
[edit] 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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