Else Blangsted

Else Blangsted was a German-born Jewish American Holocaust survivor and cinematic music editor.
Her most notable films she participated in were Getting Straight, The Front, Meatballs, Tootsie, The Goonies, The [Color Purple (1985 film)|The Color Purple], Star Trek IV: [The Voyage Home], The Fabulous Baker Boys, and The [Bonfire of the Vanities (film)|The Bonfire of the Vanities].
Blangsted was awarded a Golden Reel Award for career achievement.

Personal life and death

Blangsted was born in Würzburg, Germany, the daughter of Lilly, a homemaker, and Siegmund Siegel, a horse trader.
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.