When Mayer merged with others to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924, she worked as a director's assistant with that company. She edited several films starring Greta Garbo.
Among films she edited were Mutiny on the Bounty1935 (for which she was nominated for an Academy Award), The Way We Were, and The Goodbye Girl. She has also produced several films, including The Slugger's Wife in 1985 at age 87.
She received an Academy Honorary Award in 1978 for her work in film editing. Booth holds the record for the longest-lived person who ever won an Oscar or Academy Award.
Film editorMargaretBooth, who began her career in silent films with D.W. Griffith and ended it seven decades later editing "The Way We Were" and other films for producer Ray Stark, has died.
Booth, who received an Academy Award nomination for "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935) and an honorary Oscar in 1977, died of complications from a stroke Monday at Century City Hospital in Los Angeles.
Booth was at MGM from 1937 to 1968 before working for Ray Stark at Rastar from the mid-1970s until her retirement in 1986.
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