From Wikipedia
Barbara McLean (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 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.
