About Thelma Smith
Thelma Smith was a film editor.
Thelma Smith was an American film editor active in Hollywood in the 1920s who worked with filmmaker J.P. McGowan at Morris R. Schlank Productions.
Biography Smith was working as a film editor in Hollywood by 1922; the first film we for sure know she worked on was 1924's A Woman Who Sinned. She didn't officially receive credits until a few years later, when she became a cutter for director J.P. McGowan.
Selected filmography
Crossed Signals (1926) Ace of Clubs (1925) Red Blood (1925) Riding for Life (1925) The Road Agent (1925) A Woman Who Sinned (1924)
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