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Jeanne Spencer
Jeanne Spencer
Born	Jeanne Genevieve Spencer; November 29, 1897; Covington, Kentucky, U.S.
Died	July 18, 1986 (aged 88); Encinitas, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film editor
Spouse	Frank Ware
Relatives	Dorothy Spencer (sister)

Jeanne Spencer (sometimes credited as Jeanne Spencer Ware; born November 29, 1897 - July 18, 1986) was an American film editor active from the 1920s to the 1930s.^[1] Her younger sister, Dorothy, was also a film editor.

Biography

Jeanne was born in Covington, Kentucky, to Charles Spencer and Catherine Spellbrink. She was the eldest of the couple's children. After high school, she got a job working for her uncle at The Cincinnati Enquirer.

By the early 1920s, she was living in Hollywood and working as a film cutter, although she didn't receive credits on her earliest projects. She also worked as an assistant director in those early days (notably on 1920's The Devil's Pass Key).^[2]^[3]^[4] In the early 1920s, she married fellow editor Frank Ware. He died at the age of 39 in 1932.^{[citation needed]}

She continued editing after Frank's death and also took up writing plays. She sold her play Senate Page Boys (co-written with Albert Benham) in 1939 and helped write the adaptation that became 1941's Adventure in Washington.^[5]