Eda Warren (October 17, 1903 – July 15, 1980) was an American
film editor
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film which increasingly involves the use of digital technology.
The film edit ...
. She began her Hollywood career as a secretary and started editing films in the late 1920s. Her editing career continued through 1968.
Biography
Eda was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1903, and was 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. Eda got a job as a film editor, while Thelma worked as a stenographer at a film studio. She later became secretary of the
American Cinema Editors
Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors (ACE) is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing. Members use the post-nominal ...
group.
Partial filmography
The following were among the films with which Warren was associated:
Taras Bulba
(review). Los Angeles, California: ''Variety'', December 31, 1961.
*''Evening Clothes
''Evening Clothes'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Luther Reed that was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount.
Production background
The film is based on the 1920 play ''L'homme en habit'' (''The Man in E ...
'' (1927)
*'' Dangerous Curves'' (1929)
*'' Slightly Scarlet'' (1930)
*''Ladies Love Brutes
''Ladies Love Brutes'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film starring George Bancroft, Mary Astor, and Fredric March. The film was directed by Rowland V. Lee and based on the play ''Pardon My Glove'' by Zoë Akins.
Cast
*George Bancroft as J ...
'' (1930)
*'' The Right to Love'' (1930)
*''Torch Singer
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'' (1933)
*'' Luxury Liner'' (1933)
*''So Red the Rose
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'' (1935)
*''The General Died at Dawn
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'' (1936)
*'' Forgotten Faces'' (1936)
*''Anything Goes
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'' (1936)
*'' Mountain Music'' (1937)
*''The Big Broadcast of 1938
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'' (1938)
*''King of Alcatraz
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Plot
Just as gangster Steve Murkil is escaping from Alcatraz prison, ...
'' (1938)
*''Honeymoon in Bali
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'' (1939)
* ''One Night in Lisbon
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'' (1941)
* ''Virginia
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'' (1941)
*''I Married a Witch
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'' (1942)
*''Night Has a Thousand Eyes
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'' (1948)
*''The Big Clock
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'' (supervising, with LeRoy Stone
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He worked on over 60 films, being nominated at the 17th Academy Awards in the category of Best Film Editing for his work on the film ''Going ...
-1948)
*''Where Danger Lives
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Plot
Dr. Jeff Cameron (Mitchum) treats a mentally disturbed attempted suicide victim (Domergue). She signs ...
'' (1950)
*''Secret of the Incas
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'' (1954)
*'' World Without End'' (1956)
*'' Johnny Concho'' (1956)
*''The Unholy Wife
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'' (1957)
*''John Paul Jones
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'' (1959)
*''The Wreck of the Mary Deare
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'' (1959)
*''The Young Savages
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'' (1961)
*''Taras Bulba
''Taras Bulba'' (russian: «Тарас Бульба»; ) is a romanticized historical novella set in the first half of the 17th century, written by Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852). It features elderly Zaporozhian Cossack Taras Bulba and his sons And ...
'' (1962)
*''The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
''The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell'' is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, and Jeffrey Hunter. It was the final film for Tashlin, who died in 1972.
Plot
Master Sergeant Dan O'Farrell ...
'' (1968)
See also
* Women in film editing
References
*Smith, Sharon. ''Women Who Make Movies''. New York: Hopkinson and Blake, 1975. Pgs: 18, 25.
Notes
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1903 births
1980 deaths
American film editors
American women film editors