---
name: "Blanche Sewell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/blanche-sewell"
fi1m_id: "blanche-sewell"
imdb_id: "nm0786568"
tmdb_id: 9058
wikidata_id: "Q509759"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "27 October 1898"
died: "2 February 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-25T01:55:04.361029+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Blanche Sewell

## Identity

Blanche Sewell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/blanche-sewell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** blanche-sewell
- **IMDb ID:** nm0786568
- **TMDB ID:** 9058
- **Wikidata ID:** Q509759
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Sewell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q509759, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0786568/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9058

Editor. Born 27 October 1898 in Noble County. Died 2 February 1949.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 27 October 1898, Noble County
- **Died:** 2 February 1949
- **Active:** 1930–1939
- **Frequently works with:** [Frank Morgan](https://film.one/person/frank-morgan.md), [Lewis Stone](https://film.one/person/lewis-stone.md)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Music 2, Romance 2, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $38m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Sewell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q509759, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0786568/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9058

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Wizard of Oz*](https://film.one/film/the-wizard-of-oz.md) (91)
- **Tubi:** [*The Big House*](https://film.one/film/the-big-house.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Blanche Sewell was an American film editor. She began her career as a negative cutter before becoming an assistant to editor Viola Lawrence and then a full editor at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the early 1920s, where she remained until her death.

She edited more than sixty films for the studio, including *Grand Hotel* (1932), *Queen Christina* (1934), *Treasure Island* (1934), *The Wizard of Oz* (1939), *Boom Town* (1940) and *The Pirate* (1948). Sewell was born on 27 October 1898 in Lowe Township, Noble County, Oklahoma, and died on 2 February 1949 in Burbank, California. She was married to Leon Warren Bourgeau from 1938 until her death and is interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, wfpp.columbia.edu, womenfilmeditors.princeton.edu, findagrave.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *The Wizard of Oz* (1939), Fi1m 91, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wizard-of-oz.md)
- *Broadway Melody of 1936* (1935), Fi1m 72, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/broadway-melody-of-1936.md)
- *Naughty Marietta* (1935), Fi1m 64, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/naughty-marietta.md)
- *Queen Christina* (1934), Fi1m 64, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/queen-christina.md)
- *The Big House* (1930), Fi1m 78, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-house.md)

## Complete filmography (54)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Take Me Out to the Ball Game* (1949), Editor
- *The Pirate* (1948), Editor
- *Easy to Wed* (1946), Editor
- *The Valley of Decision* (1945), Editor
- *Bathing Beauty* (1944), Editor
- *The Heavenly Body* (1944), Editor
- *Best Foot Forward* (1943), Editor
- *Du Barry Was a Lady* (1943), Editor
- *Seven Sweethearts* (1942), Editor
- *Panama Hattie* (1942), Editor
- *Ship Ahoy* (1942), Editor
- *Honky Tonk* (1941), Editor
- *They Met in Bombay* (1941), Editor
- *Ziegfeld Girl* (1941), Editor
- *Go West* (1940), Editor
- *Boom Town* (1940), Editor
- *Broadway Melody of 1940* (1940), Editor
- *The Wizard of Oz* (1939), Editor — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wizard-of-oz.md)
- *Listen, Darling* (1938), Editor
- *Yellow Jack* (1938), Editor
- *Rosalie* (1937), Editor
- *Broadway Melody of 1938* (1937), Editor
- *Born to Dance* (1936), Editor
- *The Gorgeous Hussy* (1936), Editor
- *Rose Marie* (1936), Editor
- *Broadway Melody of 1936* (1935), Editor — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/broadway-melody-of-1936.md)
- *The Flame Within* (1935), Editor
- *Naughty Marietta* (1935), Editor — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/naughty-marietta.md)
- *What Every Woman Knows* (1934), Editor
- *Treasure Island* (1934), Editor
- *Laughing Boy* (1934), Editor
- *Queen Christina* (1934), Editor — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/queen-christina.md)
- *Beauty for Sale* (1933), Editor
- *Reunion in Vienna* (1933), Editor
- *The Secret of Madame Blanche* (1933), Editor
- *Red Dust* (1932), Editor
- *Grand Hotel* (1932), Editor
- *Red-Headed Woman* (1932), Editor
- *Hell Divers* (1932), Editor
- *The Secret Six* (1931), Editor
- *The Big House* (1930), Editor — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-house.md)
- *Children of Pleasure* (1930), Editor
- *Not So Dumb* (1930), Editor
- *The Single Standard* (1929), Editor
- *The Trial of Mary Dugan* (1929), Editor
- *Tide of Empire* (1929), Editor
- *The Flying Fleet* (1929), Editor
- *The Cossacks* (1928), Editor
- *Man, Woman and Sin* (1927), Editor
- *After Midnight* (1927), Editor
- *Tell It to the Marines* (1926), Editor
- *The Boy Friend* (1926), Editor
- *Lights of Old Broadway* (1925), Editor
- *The Sporting Venus* (1925), Editor

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