Hettie Gray Baker
Hettie Gray Baker | |
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Born | Hartford, Connecticut | July 12, 1880
Died | November 14, 1957 New York state | (aged 77)
Resting place | Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
Occupation | Film editor |
Parent(s) | Josiah Q. Baker Lizzie A. Chipman |
Hettie Gray Baker (July 12, 1880 – November 14, 1957) was an American film editor.
Biography
Born in
In 1913, she was employed by Hobart Bosworth's film company as a story editor.[4] 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).[5] In February 1914, she was one of the co-founders of the Photoplay Authors League – a precursor of the Screen Writers Guild[6] – and during the first year of operation was elected vice president and a member of the board of control.[7]
In 1916, she went to work for
By 1938, Hettie was a movie executive, serving as censor representative for Twentieth Century Fox.[1] Being a cat-lover, later in her life she wrote several books about cats.[5]
Filmography
Year | Films | Credit | Notes |
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1911 | Treasure Trove | Scenario | Extant at Library of Congress Short film |
1912 | The Irony of Fate | Scenario | Extant at Library of Congress Short film |
1912 | Old Songs and Memories | Scenario | Lost film Short film |
1912 | The Spanish Cavalier | Scenario | Lost film Short film |
1912 | Sue Simpkins’s Ambition | Scenario | Lost film Short film |
1912 | The Way of a Man With a Maid | Scenario | Lost film Short film |
1912 | Where Love Is, There God Is Also | Scenario | Lost film Short film |
1913 | Around the Battle Tree | Scenario | Lost film Short film |
1913 | The Poet and the Soldier | Scenario | Lost film Short film |
1913 | Sally in Our Alley | Scenario | Lost film Short film |
1913 | Songs of Truce | Scenario | Lost film Short film |
1913 | Their Stepmother | Scenario | Lost film Short film |
1913 | The Wordless Message | Scenario | Extant at BFI Short film |
1914 | The Chechako | Story | Lost film |
1914 | John Barleycorn | Story | Lost film |
1914 | The Real Thing in Cowboys | Scenario | Lost film Short film |
1914 | The Story of the Willow Pattern | Scenario | Lost film Short film |
1914 | The Valley of the Moon | Scenario | Lost film |
1914 | Burning Daylight | Story | Lost film |
1914 | Martin Eden | Scenario | Partially extant at Library of Congress |
1914 | An Odyssey of the North | Story | Lost film uncredited |
1915 | Buckshot John | Scenario | Extant at Library of Congress |
1916 | A Daughter of the Gods | Editor | Lost film |
1916 | Converging Paths | Scenario | Lost film Short film |
1916 | The Man He Might Have Been | Scenario | Lost film Short film |
1917 | The Right Hand Path | Scenario | Lost film |
1917 | The Honor System | Titles | Lost film |
1917 | The Legend of the Willow Plate | Scenario | Extant at Library of Congress Short film |
1918 | The Strange Woman | Titles | Lost film |
1922 | Nero | Editor | Lost film |
1922 | The Town That Forgot God | Editor | Lost film |
1922 | Tom Mix in Arabia | Scenario Editor |
Lost film |
1926 | 3 Bad Men | Editor | Extant uncredited |
Bibliography
- Canting bookplates, 1926
- Cating bookplates, 1926
- Motion picture bookplates, 1930
- Bookplates of Hettie Gray Baker, 1947
- Your Siamese cat, 1951
- 195 cat tales, 1953
References
- ^ a b c "Movie Pioneer", The Sunday Morning Star, Wilmington, Delaware, p. 7, May 1, 1938, retrieved 2013-05-04.
- ^ Leonard, John William, ed. (1914), Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915, New York: American Commonwealth Company, p. 69.
- ^ Smith, Claribel H.; Baker, Hettie Gray (April 1910), "Management of a Small Law Library", Law Library Journal, 3 (1): 1, retrieved 2013-05-04.
- ISBN 0810827220.
- ^ a b c Script-writer, MareLibri, retrieved 2013-05-04.
- ISBN 978-1453226186.
- ^ Grau, Robert (1914), The Theatre of Science: A Volume of Progress and Achievement in the Motion Picture Industry, New York: Broadway Publishing Company, p. 98.
- ^ "Women At Work: Work History of Women in America", Connecticut History Online, 2008, retrieved 2013-05-04.
- ^ a b c Hettie Gray Baker Rescues Fox Movies from Box Office Disaster, New England Historical Society, 2014, retrieved 2015-12-10.
External links
- Hettie Gray Baker examining a roll of film, Los Angeles, Connecticut Historical Society, retrieved 2013-05-04.
- Hettie Gray Baker at IMDb
- Hettie Gray Baker at Women Film Pioneers Project