The Blue Dahlia
Schmidt's first editing credits are for films from RKO Pictures, which was one of the major Hollywood studios in the 1930s; his RKO credits include "Anne of Green Gables" (1934). By 1936 he was working at a second studio, Paramount Pictures, where he remained for twenty years. He worked on several of the Bulldog Drummond B-movies, "The Blue Dahlia" (1946) and "When Worlds Collide" (1951). He edited seven films directed by George Marshall, including three comedies starring Bob Hope ("Monsieur Beaucaire" (1946), "Sorrowful Jones" (1949), and "Off Limits" (1953)).