Eda Warren

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.

Eda Warren
Born	Eda A. Warren (1903-10-17)October 17, 1903 Denver, Colorado, US
Died	July 15, 1980(1980-07-15) (aged 76) Los Angeles, California, US
Years active	1927–1968

Biography

Eda 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

Eda Warren began her career as an editor.

With more than 60 film credits dating from 1927, the following were among the films with which Warren was associated:^[4][5][6]

Editor

Year	Film	Director	Notes	Other notes
1927	Evening Clothes	Luther Reed
	Hula	Victor Fleming	Second collaboration with Victor Fleming
1928	Abie's Irish Rose		Third collaboration with Victor Fleming
1929	Wolf Song		Fourth collaboration with Victor Fleming	Uncredited
	Dangerous Curves	Lothar Mendes	First collaboration with Lothar Mendes
1930	The Kibitzer	Edward Sloman		Uncredited
	Slightly Scarlet	Louis J. Gasnier Edwin H. Knopf
	Ladies Love Brutes	Rowland V. Lee
	The Right to Love	Richard Wallace
1933	Luxury Liner	Lothar Mendes	Second collaboration with Lothar Mendes	Uncredited
	Terror Aboard	Paul Sloane
	Midnight Club	Alexander Hall George Somnes	First collaboration with Alexander Hall and George Somnes
	Torch Singer		Second collaboration with Alexander Hall and George Somnes
1934	Ready for Love	Marion Gering
1935	Car 99	Charles Barton		Uncredited
	Paris in Spring	Lewis Milestone	First collaboration with Lewis Milestone
	So Red the Rose	King Vidor
1936	Anything Goes	Lewis Milestone	Second collaboration with Lewis Milestone
	Forgotten Faces	E. A. Dupont
	The General Died at Dawn	Lewis Milestone	Third collaboration with Lewis Milestone
1937	Swing High, Swing Low	Mitchell Leisen	First collaboration with Mitchell Leisen
	Mountain Music	Robert Florey	First collaboration with Robert Florey
	Partners in Crime	Ralph Murphy
1938	The Big Broadcast of 1938	Mitchell Leisen	Second collaboration with Mitchell Leisen
	Booloo	Clyde E. Elliott
	King of Alcatraz	Robert Florey	Second collaboration with Robert Florey
1939	King of Chinatown	Nick Grinde
	Honeymoon in Bali	Edward H. Griffith	First collaboration with Edward H. Griffith
1940	Safari		Second collaboration with Edward H. Griffith
	Rangers of Fortune	Sam Wood
1941	Virginia	Edward H. Griffith	Third collaboration with Edward H. Griffith
	One Night in Lisbon		Fourth collaboration with Edward H. Griffith
	Bahama Passage		Fifth collaboration with Edward H. Griffith
1942	The Lady Is Willing	Mitchell Leisen	Third collaboration with Mitchell Leisen
	I Married a Witch	René Clair
1943	Young and Willing	Edward H. Griffith	Sixth collaboration with Edward H. Griffith
	China	John Farrow	First collaboration with John Farrow
1944	And the Angels Sing	George Marshall
	The Hitler Gang	John Farrow	Second collaboration with John Farrow
1945	The Affairs of Susan	William A. Seiter	Second collaboration with William A. Seiter
	You Came Along	John Farrow	Third collaboration with John Farrow
1946	Two Years Before the Mast		Fourth collaboration with John Farrow
1947	Easy Come, Easy Go		Sixth collaboration with John Farrow
1950	Copper Canyon		Thirteenth collaboration with John Farrow
	Where Danger Lives		Fourteenth collaboration with John Farrow
1951	Darling, How Could You!	Mitchell Leisen	Fourth collaboration with Mitchell Leisen
	His Kind of Woman	John Farrow	Fifteenth collaboration with John Farrow
	Submarine Command		Sixteenth collaboration with John Farrow
1952	Son of Paleface	Frank Tashlin	First collaboration with Frank Tashlin
1953	Pony Express	Jerry Hopper	First collaboration with Jerry Hopper
1954	Secret of the Incas		Second collaboration with Jerry Hopper
1955	Strategic Air Command	Anthony Mann
	At Gunpoint	Alfred L. Werker
1956	World Without End	Edward Bernds
	Johnny Concho	Don McGuire
	Back from Eternity	John Farrow	Seventeenth collaboration with John Farrow
1957	The Unholy Wife		Eighteenth collaboration with John Farrow
1958	St. Louis Blues	Allen Reisner
1959	John Paul Jones	John Farrow	Nineteenth collaboration with John Farrow
	The Wreck of the Mary Deare	Michael Anderson
1960	One Foot in Hell	James B. Clark
1961	The Young Savages	John Frankenheimer
1962	Escape from Zahrain	Ronald Neame
	Taras Bulba	J. Lee Thompson
1964	The New Interns	John Rich
	Ride the Wild Surf	Don Taylor
1968	The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell	Frank Tashlin	Second collaboration with Frank Tashlin

Editorial department

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes	Other notes
1927	The Rough Riders	Victor Fleming	Assistant editor	First collaboration with Victor Fleming
1938	Three Blind Mice	William A. Seiter	Assistant cutter	First collaboration with William A. Seiter	Uncredited
1947	California	John Farrow	Editorial supervisor	Fifth collaboration with John Farrow
	Blaze of Noon			Seventh collaboration with John Farrow
1948	The Big Clock		Editorial supervision	Eighth collaboration with John Farrow
	Beyond Glory		Editorial supervisor	Ninth collaboration with John Farrow
	Night Has a Thousand Eyes			Tenth collaboration with John Farrow
1949	Alias Nick Beal			Eleventh collaboration with John Farrow
	Red, Hot and Blue		Supervising editor	Twelfth collaboration with John Farrow
1958	The Hot Angel	Joe Parker	Supervising film editor

Shorts

Editor

Year	Film	Director
1948	Big Sister Blues	Alvin Ganzer
	Catalina Interlude

TV pilots

Editor

Year	Film	Director
1965	Barney	Hy Averback

TV series

Editor

Year	Title	Notes
1957	Richard Diamond, Private Detective	2 episodes
1960	Adventures in Paradise	1 episode
1963	The Twilight Zone	4 episodes
1965	Hazel	1 episode
1965−66	The Wackiest Ship in the Army	6 episodes
1966−67	Love on a Rooftop	14 episodes

See also

• Women in film editing

References

• Smith, Sharon. Women Who Make Movies. New York: Hopkinson and Blake, 1975. Pgs: 18, 25. ISBN 0-911974-09-1