Margaret Booth

Personal Info

Know For

Editing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1898-01-16 (104 years old)

Deathday

2002-10-28

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 associate...

Production

1938

A Yank at Oxford

as Supervising Editor

1979

Chapter Two

as Associate Producer

1931

1928

1972

Fat City

as Supervising Editor

1933

1928

1930

Redemption

as Editor

1930

1930

1930

New Moon

as Editor

1931

Five and Ten

as Editor

1932

1936

1932

1932

1932

1933

1930

1933

1933

Dancing Lady

as Editor

1933

Bombshell

as Editor

1934

Riptide

as Editor

1936

Camille

as Editor

1935

Reckless

as Editor

1976

Murder by Death

as Supervising Film Editor

1985

The Slugger's Wife

as Executive Producer

1935

1977

The Goodbye Girl

as Supervising Editor

1980

Seems Like Old Times

as Associate Producer

1931

1928

1927

The Enemy

as Editor

1926

Memory Lane

as Editor

1924

1982

The Toy

as Associate Producer

1925

Fine Clothes

as Editor

1978

The Cheap Detective

as Associate Producer

1975

The Sunshine Boys

as Supervising Editor

1931

The Prodigal

as Editor

1929

Wise Girls

as Editor

1928

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