Blanche Sewell

Blanche Sewell (born October 27, 1898, Oklahoma - d. February 2, 1949, Burbank, California) was an American film editor.

She had hoped to work as an actress in Hollywood, but became a negative cutter and then an editor. She was film editor on several notable MGM films, including The Wizard of Oz, though she did not live to see the film's spectacular success as a television perennial. She died at age 50. She had a son, Barton F. Sewell II, who died in January 1953.

She is interred in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California.

Selected filmography

• The Sporting Venus (1925)
• Tell It to the Marines (1926)
• After Midnight (1927)
• Man, Woman and Sin (1927)
• The Single Standard (1929)
• Tide of Empire (1929)
• Children of Pleasure (1930)
• The Big House (1930)
• Not So Dumb (1930)
• Men Behind Bars (1931)
• Red-Headed Woman (1932)
• Grand Hotel (1932)
• Beauty for Sale (1933)
• Queen Christina (1933)
• Treasure Island (1934)
• Naughty Marietta (1935)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
• The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)

• Born to Dance (1936)
• Small Town Girl (1936)
• Listen, Darling (1938)
• The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• Boom Town (1940)
• They Met in Bombay (1941)
• Honky Tonk (1941)
• DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
• Best Foot Forward (1943)
• Bathing Beauty (1944)
• The Valley of Decision (1945)
• Easy to Wed (1946)
• It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)
• Fiesta (1947)
• The Pirate (1948)
• Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)

See also

• Women in film editing

External links

• Blanche Sewell at the Internet Movie Database
• Blanche Sewell at the Women Film Pioneers Project

References

• Smith, Sharon. Women Who Make Movies. New York: Hopkinson and Blake, 1975. Pages: 18, 25. ISBN 0-911974-09-1
• "Swapped" Wife Sues Millionaire Husband", Spokane Spokesman-Review, April 12, 1935, Page 3.