Janice Loeb

{{Short description|American filmmaker}}

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| name = Janice Loeb

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1913|12|06}}

| birth_place = U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1996|02|18|1913|12|06}}

| death_place = Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.

| occupation = {{plainlist|

• Cinematographer
• Screenwriter
• Film director
• Film producer}}

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Janice Loeb (December 6, 1913 – February 18, 1996) was an American painter, cinematographer, screenwriter, film director, and producer.{{cite book |first=Richard |last= Meran Barsam| title=Nonfiction Film: A Critical History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z7p36FdLYdIC&pg=PA286|year=1992|publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=0-253-20706-1|page=286}}{{cite book |first=Greg |last= Merritt |title=Celluloid Mavericks: The History of American Independent Film |url=https://archive.org/details/celluloidmaveric00merr |url-access=registration |year=2000 |publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press |isbn=978-1-56025-232-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/celluloidmaveric00merr/page/109 109]}} She was best known for her work in the documentary films In the Street (1948) and The Quiet One (1948).

Loeb collaborated with artist and filmmaker Helen Levitt and James Agee on In the Street, shot in 1945-6, which documented the lives of working class working residents of Spanish Harlem.

She was nominated for an Academy Award for the latter, becoming the first woman to be nominated in the category of Best Documentary Feature.

In addition to In the Street and The Quiet One, Loeb and Levitt also collaborated on Steps of Age (1951), for the Mental Health Film Board, and Another Light (1952).