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.
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]
