Women Film Pioneers Project
Irene Morra worked as a negative cutter at D. W. Griffith’s Los Angeles studios before becoming a cutter for Jackie Coogan Productions and Fox Films. She worked as an editor until her retirement in 1958.
See also: Hettie Grey Baker, Anne Bauchens, Margaret Booth, Winifred Dunn, Katherine Hilliker, Viola Lawrence, Jane Loring, Blanche Sewell, Rose Smith
The bibliography for this essay is included in the “Cutting Women: Margaret Booth and Hollywood’s Pioneering Female Film Editors” overview essay.
A. Archival Filmography: Extant Film Titles:
1. Irene Morra as Editor
My Boy. Dir.: Victor Heerman, sc.: Max Abramson, Victor Heerman, Shirley Vance Martin, ed.: Irene Morra (Jackie Coogan Productions US 1921) cas.: Jackie Coogan, Claude Gillingwater, si, b&w, 35mm. Archive: Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée, Library of Congress, EYE Filmmuseum, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Academy Film Archive, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Filmoteca Española, George Eastman Museum, Filmoteca de Catalunya, Cinémathèque Française, Lobster Films.
Oliver Twist. Dir.: Frank Lloyd, adp.: Frank Lloyd, Walter Anthony, ed.: Irene Morra (Jackie Coogan Productions US 1922) cas.: Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, si, b&w, 35mm. Archive: Cineteca del Friuli, Gosfilmofond, Library of Congress, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, BFI National Archive, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Cinémathèque Québécoise.
Trouble. Dir.: Albert Austin, sc.: Max Abraham, ed.: Irene Morra (Jackie Coogan Productions US 1922) cas.: Jackie Coogan, Wallace Beery, si, b&w. Archive: Gosfilmofond, EYE Filmmuseum.
Circus Days. Dir.: Edward F. Cline, sc.: Edward F. Cline, Harry Weil, James Otis Kaler, Eve Unsell, ed.: Irene Morra (Sol Lesser US 1921) cas.: Jackie Coogan, Barbara Tennant, si, b&w, 35mm. Archive: Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée, Gosfilmofond, Filmoteca Española, Filmoteca de Catalunya, Lobster Films.
Daddy. Dir.: E. Mason Hopper, sc.: Jack Coogan, Mrs. Jack Coogan, ed.: Irene Morra (Jackie Coogan Productions US 1923) cas.: Jackie Coogan, Arthur Edmund Carew, si, b&w, 35mm. Archive: UCLA Film & Television Archive, Cineteca Nazionale.
A Boy of Flanders. Dir.: Victor Schertzinger, sc.: Walter Anthony, Marion Jackson, ed.: Irene Morra (Jackie Coogan Productions US 1924) cas.: Jackie Coogan, Nigel De Brulier, si, b&w. Archive: Gosfilmofond.
Little Robinson Crusoe. Dir.: Edward F. Cline, sc.: Willard Mack, ed.: Irene Morra (Jackie Coogan Productions US 1924) cas.: Jackie Coogan, Daniel J. O’Brien, si, b&w. Archive: Gosfilmofond.
One of the Bravest. Dir.: Frank O’Connor, sc.: James J. Tynan, ed.: Irene Morra ( Gotham Productions US 1925) cas.: Ralph Lewis, Edward Hearn, si, b&w. Archive: Library of Congress.
The Phantom of the Forest. Dir.: Henry McCarthy, sc.: James J. Tynan, ed.: Irene Morra (Gotham Productions US 1926) cas.: Edward G. Phillips, Betty Francisco, si, b&w, 35mm. Archive: Library of Congress, BFI National Archive.
B. Filmography: Non-Extant Film Titles:
1. Irene Morra as Editor
The Rag Man, 1925; Prep and Pep, 1928; The News Parade, 1928; Win That Girl, 1928.
Hatch, Kristen. "Irene Morra." In Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2013. <https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-t4f1-vf36>