In 1924, Dorothy Spencer moved from her position at the Consolidated-Aller lab to Fox's editing department. With Barbara McLean, Spencer spent most of the '30s working as apart of Fox's team as a cutter then began working with Otho Lovering. It is with Lovering that gained the both of them an Oscar nomination for "Stagecoach" (1939). In the 1940s, Spencer would go solo and edited two of Hitchcock's films in "Foreign Correspondent" (1940) then "Lifeboat" in 1944. But it was for Ernst Lubitsch which she would edit the most films for including "To Be or Not to Be" (1942). By the 1960s, she had worked on 60 films, gaining two nominations then two more in "Cleopatra" (1963) and "Earthquake" (1974). In 1989, she finally gained an American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award as well as a Golden Scissors Award for "Earthquake."
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