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Margaret Booth

Known For
Editing

Known Credits
4

Gender
Female

Birthday
January 16, 1898 (128 years old)

Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA

Margaret Booth

Biography

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

Born in Los Angeles, she started her Hollywood career as a 'patcher', editing films by D. W. Griffith, around 1915. Her brother was actor Elmer Booth. 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, including Camille (1936).

Booth later edited such diverse films as Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award). A few films associated with her are Wise Girls (1929), A Yank at Oxford (1938), The Way We Were (1973), The Sunshine Boys (1975), The Goodbye Girl (1977), The Cheap Detective (1978), and Seems Like Old Times (1980). She was supervising editor and associate producer on several films for producer Ray Stark, culminating with executive producer credit on The Slugger's Wife in 1985 when she was 87 years old.

She 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. In 1990, Booth was honoured with the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award.

Margaret Booth died in 2002, aged 104, from complications of a stroke. She is interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California.

Known For

Production

1985The Slugger's Wife...Executive Producer
1982The Toy...Associate Producer
1980Seems Like Old Times...Associate Producer
1979Chapter Two...Associate Producer
1978The Cheap Detective...Associate Producer

Editing

1982Annie...Supervising Editor
1977The Goodbye Girl...Supervising Editor
1976Murder by Death...Supervising Film Editor
1975The Sunshine Boys...Supervising Editor
1972Fat City...Supervising Editor
1938A Yank at Oxford...Supervising Editor
1936Camille...Editor
1936Romeo and Juliet...Editor
1935Mutiny on the Bounty...Editor
1935Reckless...Editor
1934The Barretts of Wimpole Street...Editor
1934Riptide...Editor
1933Dancing Lady...Editor
1933Bombshell...Editor
1933Storm at Daybreak...Editor
1933Peg o' My Heart...Editor
1933The White Sister...Editor
1932Strange Interlude...Editor
1932The Son-Daughter...Editor
1932Smilin' Through...Editor
1932Lovers Courageous...Editor
1931The Cuban Love Song...Editor
1931Susan Lenox...Editor
1931Five and Ten...Editor
1931It's a Wise Child...Editor
1931The Prodigal...Editor
1930New Moon...Editor
1930A Lady's Morals...Editor
1930The Lady of Scandal...Editor
1930Strictly Unconventional...Editor
1930Redemption...Editor
1930The Rogue Song...Editor
1929Wise Girls...Editor
1929The Bridge of San Luis Rey...Editor
1928A Lady of Chance...Editor
1928The Mysterious Lady...Editor
1928Telling the World...Editor
1928Bringing Up Father...Editor
1927The Enemy...Editor
1927Lovers...Editor
1926Memory Lane...Editor
1925Fine Clothes...Editor
1924Husbands and Lovers...Editor

Writing

1935Mutiny on the Bounty...Screenplay

Acting

2016The Women Who Run Hollywoodas Self (archive footage)
2014Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Womenas Self
1992MGM: When the Lion Roarsas
Editors on Editingas