Verna Fields
Verna Fields ( born March 21, 1918 in St. Louis, Missouri as Verna Hellman, † November 30, 1982 in Encino, Los Angeles) was an American Filmeditorin.
The daughter of screenwriter Sam Fields began during the 1940s as assistant editor in Hollywood. There she met the film editor Sam Fields know. After the two married shortly thereafter, Verna Fields gave up her job. Sam Fields died in 1954, and then worked again as Verna Fields Editorin.
First, she worked in television for such series as Death Valley Days, Sky King and The Tom Ewell Show. Beginning of the 1960s taught Fields film editing at the University of California, Los Angeles and worked back to movies such as El Cid ( 1961) by Anthony Mann, in which she was responsible for the sound editor. During the 1960s, Fields worked on some documentaries for the Office of Economic Opportunity.
Her return to the commercial film marks Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool by 1969. Followed Peter Bogdanovich comedy What's Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973). In the same year, Fields was responsible for the cut at George Lucas ' American Graffiti.
For their work on American Graffiti Fields in 1974 nominated for an Oscar. The award for the best film editing Fields received two years later for Steven Spielberg's Jaws. With Spielberg Fields had worked in 1974 for The Sugarland Express.