Film editor Mike Hill

Academy Award winning film editor Michael Hill was presented with the 2003 Mary Riepma Ross Award on August 8 in Lincoln. The award was presented during the Great Plains Film Festival. Hill will attend a screening of another film he edited, The Paper, Saturday evening (Aug 9) at the Ross Media Arts Center. Hill will talk to the audience following the screening.

Restoration of the house would have been too expensive, according to the med center. A memorial to McGuire will be created at the site, using bricks from the house. Two oak trees in the front yard will remain.

McGuire was born in Omaha in 1918. She began her acting career at the Omaha Community Playhouse, starring with another Nebraska native, Henry Fonda. She was a graduate of Omaha's Central High School.

She made her film debut in Claudia in 1943. Among her film credits are A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), The Spiral Staircase (1946), Gentlemen's Agreement (1947), Three Coins in a Fountain (1954), A Summer Place (1959), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), and Summer Magic (1963). In 1976, she played Mary Jordache in the television miniseries, Rich Man, Poor Man, which also starred another Omaha native, Nick Nolte.

Miss McGuire died on September 13, 2001 at the age of 85.
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