Blanche Sewell (born October 27, 1898, Oklahoma - d. February 2, 1949, Burbank, California) was an American film editor.She had hoped to work as an actress in Hollywood, but became a negative cutter and then an editor. She was film editor on several notable MGM films, including The Wizard of Oz, though she did not live to see the film's spectacular success as a television perennial. She died at age 50. She had a son, Barton F. Sewell II, who died in January 1953.She is interred in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California.
She began as an assistant to Viola Lawrence in 1921 after graduating from Inglewood High School three years earlier. She worked at MGM from 1925 until her premature death in 1949.
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Worked at M-G-M (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) exclusively throughout her career.