Else Blangsted

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| name = Else Blangsted

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| birth_name = Else Siegel

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1920|05|22}}

| birth_place = Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2020|05|01|1920|05|22}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California USA

| nationality = American

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| occupation = Music editor

| spouse = Folmar Blangsted (1960-1982; his death); 1 child

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Else Blangsted (née Siegel; 22 May 1920 – 1 May 2020) was a German-born Jewish American Holocaust survivor and cinematic music editor.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0087466/|title=Else Blangsted|work=IMDb}}{{cite web|url=https://americansongwriter.com/in-memory-of-else-blangsted/|title=In Memory of Else Blangsted, 1920-2020, Part One|date=3 May 2020|work=American Songwriter}}

Her most notable films she participated in were Getting Straight (1970), The Front (1976), Meatballs (1979), Tootsie (1982), The Goonies (1985), The Color Purple (1985), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), and The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990).

Blangsted was awarded a Golden Reel Award for career achievement.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2006/scene/awards/sound-editors-sing-praise-1117939269/|title=Sound editors sing praise|date=5 March 2006|work=Variety}}

Personal life and death

Blangsted was born in Würzburg, Germany, the daughter of Lilly (Oppenheimer), a homemaker, and Siegmund Siegel, a horse trader.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/arts/else-blangsted-dead.html|title = Else Blangsted, Who Fled the Nazis and Found a Hollywood Ending, Dies at 99|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 20 May 2020|last1 = Sandomir|first1 = Richard}}

Widowed in 1982, Blangsted died of natural causes at age 99 at her Los Angeles home. She was survived by two daughters, two grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Her elder daughter was born in Switzerland of a teenaged out-of-wedlock relationship. She was told the child had died only to learn in 1984 that the 48-year-old daughter was, in fact, alive, and had been adopted by a wealthy Swiss couple from Lausanne. Shortly after, Else fled Europe for the United States in 1937 to escape the scourge of Nazism.{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/else-blangsted-dies-dead-holocaust-survivor-film-music-editor-1234598660/ |title=Else Blangsted, Acclaimed Film Music Editor and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 99|website=variety.com|date=5 May 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/else-blangsted-holocaust-survivor-film-232433901.html|title=Else Blangsted, Holocaust Survivor and Film Music Editor, Dies at 99|website=news.yahoo.com}}

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Category:1920 births

Category:2020 deaths

Category:Musicians from Würzburg

Category:Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States