Nisha Rathode (Editor)

Margaret Booth

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Occupation
  
Film editor, producer

Siblings
  
Elmer Booth

Role
  
Film Editor

Name
  
Margaret Booth



Born
  
January 16, 1898 (
1898-01-16
)
Los Angeles, California, United States

Died
  
October 28, 2002, Los Angeles, California, United States

Nominations
  
Academy Award for Best Film Editing

Movies
  
Mutiny on the Bounty, The Cheap Detective, Seems Like Old Times, Wise Girls

Similar People
  
Talbot Jennings, Elmer Booth, Ray Stark, William H Daniels, Carey Wilson

Margaret Booth Receives an Honorary Award: 1978 Oscars


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

Contents

Deb's Women Crush Wednesday Video - Margaret Booth


Life and career

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 edited such diverse films as Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award). Among the other films on which she worked 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 (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 second longest-lived person (after Luise Rainer) 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 honored with the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award. She died in 2002, aged 104, from complications of a stroke she suffered. She is interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood California.

Selected filmography

  • Bringing Up Father (1928)
  • References

    Margaret Booth Wikipedia


    Similar Topics