Viola Lawrence

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Viola Lawrence

Viola Lawrence (born December 2, 1894 in Brooklyn , New York City , † November 20, 1973 in Los Angeles ; born Viola Mallory ) was an American film editor .

Life

Viola Lawrence worked first as "Filmpoliererin" before in the 1915 Vitagraph the Editor learned. In the mid-1920s, she went to Hollywood , where she was employed by Columbia Pictures from 1931 and from then on was one of the established female editors alongside Anne Bauchens , Blanche Sewell , Margaret Booth and Adrienne Fazan . Films she edited over the years include ten films starring Columbia's greatest star at the time, Rita Hayworth , including SOS Fire On Board (1939), The Goddess Dances (1944),The Lady of Shanghai (1948) and Affair in Trinidad (1952).

Lawrence was nominated twice for an Oscar in the category Best Editing - for the film musical Pal Joey (1957) with Frank Sinatra and Hayworth and for Pepe - What Can the World Cost (1960). George Sidney directed both films . In 1961, Lawrence retired from the film business. She died in 1973 at the age of 78 and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

literature

  • Karen Ward Mahar: Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood . The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, ISBN 0-8018-9084-5 , p. 201.

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personal data
SURNAME Lawrence, Viola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mallory, Viola (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film editor
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH 20th November 1973
Place of death Los Angeles , California