Eda Warren (October 17, 1903 – July 15, 1980) was an American film editor.[1] She began her Hollywood career as a secretary and started editing films in the late 1920s. Her editing career continued through 1968.
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| Born | Eda A. Warren October 17, 1903 Denver, Colorado, US |
| Died | July 15, 1980 (aged 76) Los Angeles, California, US |
| Years active | 1927–1968 |
Biography
editEda was born in Denver, Colorado in 1903, the daughter of Thomas Warren and Henrietta Weber. She and her older sister, Thelma, were raised in Colorado and Nebraska before the family moved west and settled in Beverly Hills, California. Eda got a job as a film editor,[2] while Thelma worked as a stenographer at a film studio. She later became secretary of the American Cinema Editors group.[3]
Partial filmography
editThe following were among the films with which Warren was associated:[4][5][6]
- Evening Clothes (1927)
- Dangerous Curves (1929)
- Slightly Scarlet (1930)
- Ladies Love Brutes (1930)
- The Right to Love (1930)
- Torch Singer (1933)
- Luxury Liner (1933)
- So Red the Rose (1935)
- The General Died at Dawn (1936)
- Forgotten Faces (1936)
- Anything Goes (1936)
- Mountain Music (1937)
- The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
- King of Alcatraz (1938)
- Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
- One Night in Lisbon (1941)
- Virginia (1941)
- I Married a Witch (1942)
- Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
- The Big Clock (supervising, with LeRoy Stone-1948)
- Where Danger Lives (1950)
- Secret of the Incas (1954)
- Strategic Air Command (1955)
- World Without End (1956)
- Johnny Concho (1956)
- The Unholy Wife (1957)
- John Paul Jones (1959)
- The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
- The Young Savages (1961)
- Taras Bulba (1962)
- The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968)
See also
editReferences
edit- Smith, Sharon. Women Who Make Movies. New York: Hopkinson and Blake, 1975. Pgs: 18, 25. ISBN 0-911974-09-1
Notes
edit- ^ Donati, William. Ida Lupino: A Biography, p. 272. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
- ^ "November 25, 1935, p. 14 - Oakland Tribune at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-02-12.
- ^ "January 13, 1955, p. 23 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-02-12.
- ^ Munden, Kenneth W., ed. The American Film Institute Catalog: Feature Films, 1921-1930, pp. 1, 166, 218, 367, 402, 412, 915. Los Angeles and Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1971.
- ^ "I Married a Witch". Los Angeles, California: Variety, December 31, 1941.
- ^ "Taras Bulba" (review). Los Angeles, California: Variety, December 31, 1961.
External links
edit- Eda Warren at IMDb
- "Woman Film Cutter Vital Cog in Success". Oakland Tribune. November 25, 1935.