Alma Reville is remembered on screen for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Alma Reville as English film editor and screenwriter (1899–1982).
Alma Reville was born at Nottingham in 1899. Her recorded nationality is United Kingdom.
The studio system was at its height in this period: contracts were long, the output was industrial, and a handful of studios decided who worked.
Alma Reville is credited as screenwriter, film editor and writer.
A film outlives its reviews, its budget and usually its studio; what remains is whether anyone still watches it.
That the work was made from United Kingdom shaped it: national industries differ in what they finance, who they cast and which audiences they can reach.
Alma Reville died in 1982, aged 83. The films remain, which is the only form in which a screen career survives.
Achievements
- Worked as screenwriter, film editor and writer
