Rita Roland

Rita Roland (born Rita Rosenstein) was a prolific German-born film editor known for her work on German and American films like Six Pack, The New Kids, and Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff.^[1]

Rita Roland
Born	Rita Victoria Rosenstein October 5, 1914 Berlin, Germany
Died	August 17, 1998(1998-08-17) (aged 83) Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation	Film editor
Spouse	Henry Martin

Biography

Rita Rosenstein was born in Germany to Ernst Rosenstein and Elsa Landsberger. She began her career as a film editor in her native country before World War II. She fled Germany during the Holocaust, moving to Hollywood, where she edited dozens of films for MGM before she died in 1998.^[2] She was survived by her husband, Dutch writer-director Henry Martin.

Selected filmography

Editor

Year	Film	Director	Notes	Ref.
1938	I Want to Live with Letizia	Camillo Mastrocinque
1939	Wilton's Zoo	Douglas Sirk
1940	Somewhere in the Netherlands	Ludwig Berger
1956	Crowded Paradise	Fred Pressburger
1964	Honeymoon Hotel	Henry Levin
1965	Girl Happy	Boris Sagal		[3]
	A Patch of Blue	Guy Green	First collaboration with Guy Green
1966	The Singing Nun	Henry Koster
	Spinout	Norman Taurog
	Penelope	Arthur Hiller
1967	Don't Make Waves	Alexander Mackendrick
1968	Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?	Hy Averback
	The Split	Gordon Flemyng
1969	More	Barbet Schroeder
	Justine	George Cukor
1970	Move	Stuart Rosenberg
1972	To Find a Man	Buzz Kulik
1975	Once Is Not Enough	Guy Green	Second collaboration with Guy Green	[4]
1978	The Betsy	Daniel Petrie	First collaboration with Daniel Petrie
1979	Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff	Marvin J. Chomsky
1980	Resurrection	Daniel Petrie	Second collaboration with Daniel Petrie
1981	Fort Apache, The Bronx		Third collaboration with Daniel Petrie
1982	Six Pack		Fourth collaboration with Daniel Petrie
1985	The New Kids	Sean S. Cunningham

Editorial department

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes	Ref.
1961	Ada	Daniel Mann	Assistant editor	Uncredited	[5]

Documentaries

Editor

Year	Film	Director
1947	Walvis in zicht!	Hannes de Boer
1948	Dutch in Seven Lessons	Charles Huguenot van der Linden [de; fr; nl] Heinz Josephson

TV movies

Editor

Year	Film	Director
1972	The Weekend Nun	Jeannot Szwarc
1973	The Devil's Daughter
	Incident on a Dark Street	Buzz Kulik
	She Lives!	Stuart Hagmann
	Pioneer Woman	Buzz Kulik
1974	Remember When
1976	The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
	Sybil	Daniel Petrie
1977	Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
	Corey: For the People	Buzz Kulik
1982	A Piano for Mrs. Cimino	George Schaefer
1984	The Dollmaker	Daniel Petrie

TV series

Editor

Year	Title	Notes
1965	A Man Called Shenandoah	1 episode
1973	Police Story
1976	Sybil	2 episodes

Editorial department

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1953−54	Johnny Jupiter	Supervising editor	63 episodes