Women Film Pioneers Project
A Denver native, Loring edited movie trailers before becoming a film cutter for Paramount-Famous Players Lasky in 1927. She would remain with Paramount until the early 1930s, when she moved to RKO as an assistant director.
See also: Hettie Gray Baker, Anne Bauchens, Margaret Booth, Winifred Dunn, Katharine Hilliker, Viola Lawrence, Irene Morra, 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. Jane Loring as Editor
Pointed Heels. Dir.: Edward Sutherland, sc.: Florence Ryerson, ed.: Jane Loring (Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. US 1929) cas.: William Powell, Fay Wray, Helen Kane, si&so, b&w, 7 reels; 5, 689 ft. Archive: UCLA Film & Television Archive.
The Saturday Night Kid. Dir.: Edward Sutherland, sc.: Ethel Doherty, ed.: Jane Loring (Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. US 1929) cas.: Clara Bow, James Hall, Jean Arthur, si&so, b&w. Archive: BFI National Archive.
B. Filmography: Non-Extant Film Titles:
1. Jane Loring as Editor
Avalanche, 1928; The Water Hole, 1928; Fast Company, 1929; Sunset Pass, 1929.
Hatch, Kristen. "Jane Loring." 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/d8-7sn0-x271>