Adelaide Cannon

{{short description|American film editor}} {{Infobox person | name = Adelaide Cannon | birth_name = Adelaide Brevoort Cannon | birth_date = January 4, 1883 | birth_place = Kansas City, Missouri, USA | death_date = February 17, 1971 (aged 88) | death_place = San Gabriel, California, USA | occupation = Film editor | spouse = | relatives = }}

'''Adelaide Cannon''' (born January 4, 1883 – February 17, 1971) was an American film editor and script assistant active during the 1920s.

== Biography == Adelaide was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to James Cannon and Katherine Brevoort.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/380533522/?terms=%22adelaide+cannon%22|title=1 Mar 1914, 30 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref>

She worked various jobs after moving to Los Angeles with her mother in the 1910s, before ultimately finding her way into [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]'s editing department in the 1920s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/95363455/?terms=%22adelaide+cannon%22|title=7 Dec 1924, Page 66 - Oakland Tribune at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref>

She worked on over half a dozen films as an editor and script assistant, although she wasn't always credited.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/316230199/?terms=%22adelaide+cannon%22|title=25 Sep 1923, 10 - Tampa Bay Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref> She also worked as a secretary and script clerk for actress [[Colleen Moore]], writer-director [[Ralph Ince]], and director [[Raoul Walsh]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/385479481/?terms=%22adelaide+cannon%22|title=30 Jan 1929, 40 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref>

== Selected filmography ==

* ''[[Tenth Avenue (film)|Tenth Avenue]]'' (1928) * ''[[Skyscraper (1928 film)|Skyscraper]]'' (1928) * ''[[Almost Human (1927 film)|Almost Human]]'' (1927) * ''[[The Wise Wife]]'' (1927) * ''[[The Little Adventuress (1927 film)|The Little Adventuress]]'' (1927) * ''[[For Alimony Only]]'' (1926) * ''[[Mantrap (1926 film)|Mantrap]]'' (1926) * ''[[Locked Doors]]'' (1924) (uncredited)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/95363455/?terms=%22adelaide+cannon%22|title=7 Dec 1924, Page 66 - Oakland Tribune at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref>

== References == <references />

== External links ==

* {{IMDb name|id=0134152}}

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