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Margaret Booth is a Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor American born on 16 january 1898 at Los Angeles (USA)

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Nationality USA
Birth 16 january 1898 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 28 october 2002 (at 104 years) at Los Angeles (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 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.

Biography

Assistante-monteuse sur Les Deux Orphelines de D. W. Griffith en 1921, Margaret Booth devient monteuse à part entière en 1923 ; elle contribue ainsi à quarante-trois films américains (produits principalement par la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) jusqu'en 1936, sur deux réalisations de George Cukor, Roméo et Juliette (avec Norma Shearer et Leslie Howard) et Le Roman de Marguerite Gautier (avec Greta Garbo et Robert Taylor).

Parmi ses autres films notables de cette première période, citons La Veuve joyeuse d'Erich von Stroheim (version muette de 1925, avec Mae Murray et John Gilbert), La Belle Ténébreuse de Fred Niblo (1928, avec Greta Garbo et Conrad Nagel), Mademoiselle volcan de Victor Fleming (1933, avec Jean Harlow et Lee Tracy), ou encore Les Révoltés du Bounty de Frank Lloyd (version de 1935, avec Clark Gable et Charles Laughton).

En 1938, sur Vive les étudiants de Jack Conway, puis en 1939, sur Le Magicien d'Oz de Victor Fleming, Margaret Booth devient superviseuse au montage, fonction qu'elle exerce à nouveau sur treize autres films, entre 1951 (deux films, dont La Charge victorieuse de John Huston) et 1982 (Annie du même John Huston). Dans l'intervalle, elle collabore notamment à Gigi de Vincente Minnelli (1958) et Nos plus belles années de Sydney Pollack (1973). Signalons également sa contribution non créditée au montage de Ben-Hur de William Wyler (1959).

Par ailleurs, entre 1978 et 1985 (à 87 ans), elle est productrice (associée ou exécutive) de six films, dont Annie pré-cité.

En 1936, Margaret Booth obtient une nomination à l'Oscar du meilleur montage pour Les Révoltés du Bounty. Et en 1978, un Oscar d'honneur lui est décerné pour l'ensemble de sa carrière de monteuse.

Elle meurt centenaire (à 104 ans) en 2002.