Margaret Booth

Known for EditingBorn 1898-01-16Died 2002-10-28Los Angeles, California, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Telling the World

Lovers

MGM: When the Lion Roars

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

The Women Who Run Hollywood

Memory Lane

Fine Clothes

Murder by Death

Fat City

The Goodbye Girl

Mutiny on the Bounty

The Sunshine Boys

Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

The Mysterious Lady

Annie

Camille

Husbands and Lovers

Dancing Lady

A Yank at Oxford

The Cheap Detective

Seems Like Old Times

Riptide

Storm at Daybreak

Bombshell

The Son-Daughter

The Rogue Song

A Lady of Chance

The Toy

Chapter Two

Romeo and Juliet

The Enemy

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

It's a Wise Child

Susan Lenox

Five and Ten

Lovers Courageous

Smilin' Through

New Moon

Redemption

Strange Interlude

The Lady of Scandal

The White Sister

Wise Girls

Reckless

Peg o' My Heart

A Lady's Morals

Bringing Up Father

The Cuban Love Song