Barbara McLean

Barbara McLean
Photograph of the head and torso of a woman. She is seated in front of a Moviola machine. She is wearing white cloth gloves and is holding a reel of film. A rack with additional reels of film is visible in the background.
Photograph by Howard Jean from Vogue (1952).
Born
Barbara Pollut

(1903-11-16)November 16, 1903
Palisades Park, New Jersey
DiedMarch 28, 1996(1996-03-28) (aged 92)
Newport Beach, California
SpouseRobert D. Webb (1951–1990)
AwardsBest Editing 1944 Wilson

Barbara "Bobby" McLean[1] (November 16, 1903 – March 28, 1996) was an American film editor with 62 film credits.

In the period Darryl F. Zanuck was dominant at the 20th Century Fox Studio, from the 1930s through the 1960s, McLean was the studio's most prominent editor and ultimately the head of its editing department.[2][3][4] She won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the film Wilson (1944). She was nominated for the same award another six occasions, including All About Eve (1950).[5][6] Her total of seven nominations for Best Editing Oscar was not surpassed until 2012 by Michael Kahn.[7]

She had an extensive collaboration with the director Henry King over 29 films, including Twelve O'Clock High (1949). Her impact was summarized by Adrian Dannatt in 1996 who wrote that McLean was "a revered editor who perhaps single-handedly established women as vital creative figures in an otherwise patriarchal industry."[8]

  1. ^ "21 Apr 1940, 47 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  2. ^ Thomas, Robert McG. (April 7, 1996). "Barbara McLean, Film Editor at 20th Century-Fox, Dies at 92". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Stempel, Tom (2004). "McClean, Barbara". In Ware, Susan; Braukman, Stacy Lorraine (eds.). Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press. pp. 435–436. ISBN 978-0-674-01488-6. Contains an extensive bibliography. Stempel interviewed McLean in 1970 for the American Film Institute; a copy of the transcript is archived at the Margaret Herrick Library Archived February 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
  4. ^ The count of film credits is based on information retrieved from the webpage Barbara McLean at IMDb on February 1, 2009.
  5. ^ "The Official Academy Awards® Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2017-01-09. No webpage explicitly listing the nominees and awardees by category, etc., is maintained by the Academy. The Academy's database generated a list of all nominations and wins for McLean by Editing award category: Les Miserables (1935; 8th Awards). Lloyd's of London (1936; 9th). Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938; 11th). The Rains Came (1939; 12th). The Song of Bernadette (1943; 16th). Wilson (1944; 17th; win). All about Eve (1950; 23rd).
  6. ^ Guthman, Edward (February 9, 2001). "Campy Catfights, Superb Comedy in 'All About Eve'". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved January 14, 2009.
  7. ^ "Film Editing Facts" (PDF). Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. March 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-13. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
  8. ^ Dannatt, Adrian (April 13, 1996). "Obituaries: Margaret McLean". The Independent (London).