Hettie Gray Baker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hettie Gray Baker

American film editor

Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1880

Place of Birth: Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 14-Nov-1957

Profession: screenwriter, actor, writer, librarian, law librarian, film editor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Hettie Gray Baker

  • Hettie Gray Baker (July 12, 1880 – November 14, 1957) was an American film editor. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Josiah Q.
  • Baker and his wife Lizzie A.
  • Chipman, Hettie attended public high school in Hartford before undertaking a special course of study at Simmons College in Boston.
  • She was employed at the Hartford Public Library during 1900–03, where she began writing movie scenarios during her spare moments.
  • She sold her first story, titled, Treasure Trove, to Vitagraph Studios.
  • for $20 (equivalent to $602 in 2018), and continued to write and sell freelance works for the next six years.
  • In 1903, she became a private secretary for the School for Social Workers in Boston, where she worked until 1907 when she was hired as a librarian for the Hartford Bar Library, a small law library.In 1913, she was employed by Hobart Bosworth's film company as a story editor.
  • Her work included scenario writing and scripting stories for a series of silent films based upon the work of Jack London.
  • These included Burning Daylight (1914), The Valley of the Moon (1914), and The Chechako (1914).
  • In February 1914, she was one of the co-founders of the Photoplay Authors League – a precursor of the Screen Writers Guild – and during the first year of operation was elected vice president and a member of the board of control.In 1916, she went to work for Fox Film Corporation (later renamed Twentieth Century Fox) as a film editor.
  • During her first year, she edited A Daughter of the Gods, Hollywood's first film with a million dollar budget, and, listed as H.G.
  • Baker, may have been the first female editor to be acknowledged in a film's credits.
  • She was the editor for Queen of the Sea (1918) starring Annette Kellermann, and The Iron Horse (1924), directed by John Ford.
  • In total, she was a writer and editor for over 20 films, but was rarely credited.By 1938, Hettie was a movie executive, serving as censor representative for Twentieth Century Fox.
  • Being a cat-lover, later in her life she wrote several books about cats.

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