Viola Lawrence
Personal Info
Know For
Editing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1894-12-01 (79 years old)
Deathday
1973-11-20
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also known As
Lilian Viola Mallory
Viola Mallory
Viola Lawrence
Biography
Viola Mallory Lawrence (December 2, 1894, New York – November 20, 1973) is considered by many to be the first woman film editor in Hollywood. She was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing: for Pal Joey (1957), with Jerome Thoms; and for Pepe (1960), with Al Clark. She began working at Vitagraph Studios in Flatbush, Brooklyn as a messenger at the age of 11. At 12, she was holding title cards. In 1915, she became the second female film cutter in cinema history, after Anna McKnight, who also worked at Vitagraph. She married Frank Lawrence, her film cutting teacher at Vitagraph. In 1917, she moved to Hollywood and worked f...
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