Barbara McLean
Barbara McLean (November 16, 1903 – March 28, 1996) was an American film editor. 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 conspicuous editor and ultimately the head of its editing department. She won the 1944 Academy Award for Film Editing for the film Wilson. She was nominated for the same award for six additional films, including the "classic", All About Eve (1950). Her total of seven nominations for editing during her career was only surpassed in 2012 by Michael Kahn. She had a notable collaboration with the director Henry King that extended over twenty-nine films, including Twelve O'Clock High (1949). Her impact was summarized by Adrian Dannatt in 1996: McLean was "a revered editor who perhaps single-handedly established women as vital creative figures in an otherwise patriarchal industry. She received the inaugural American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award in 1988. She died in Newport Beach, California in 1996.
Known for
On the Threshold of Space
Seven Cities of Gold
Untamed
The Egyptian
King of the Khyber Rifles
The Robe
The Desert Rats
Niagara
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Lure of the Wilderness
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Viva Zapata!
People Will Talk
David and Bathsheba
Follow the Sun
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
All About Eve
No Way Out
The Gunfighter
Twelve O'Clock High
Prince of Foxes
When My Baby Smiles at Me
Deep Waters
Captain from Castile
Nightmare Alley
Margie
The Dolly Sisters
A Bell for Adano
Winged Victory
Wilson
The Song of Bernadette
The Black Swan
Rings on Her Fingers
A Yank in the R.A.F.
Tobacco Road
Chad Hanna
Down Argentine Way
Maryland
Little Old New York
The Rains Came
Stanley and Livingstone
Jesse James
Suez
Alexander's Ragtime Band
In Old Chicago
Seventh Heaven
Lloyd's of London
Sing, Baby, Sing
Professional Soldier
Metropolitan
Les Misérables
Clive of India
The Mighty Barnum
The Affairs of Cellini
The House of Rothschild
Gallant Lady
Coquette