Anne Bauchens

Anne Bauchens

  • Birthday: 1882-02-02
  • Deathday: 1967-05-07
  • Place of birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia Anne Bauchens (February 2, 1882 – May 7, 1967) was an American film editor who is particularly noted for her collaboration over 40 years with the director Cecil B. DeMille. When the Academy Award for Film Editing was created in 1934, Bauchens received one of the three nominations for her editing of Cleopatra. She later won the Academy Award for North West Mounted Police (1940). Bauchens was trained as an editor by DeMille, and shared her first credit with him on the film Carmen. Prior to 1918, DeMille had edited, as well as directed, his films. After Carmen and We Can't Have Everything (1918), Bauchens no longer shared the editing credits with DeMille. She edited DeMille's films for the rest of their long careers, through the 1956 film The Ten Commandments. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Film editing again twice, for The Greatest Show on Earth in 1952 and for The Ten Commandments in 1956. In total, Bauchens' editing is credited on 41 films directed by DeMille, and on 20 films with other directors. Despite her long career and her series of awards, the characterizations of Bauchens as an editor are not invariably flattering. Margaret Booth, another distinguished film editor, has been quoted as saying in 1965 that, "Anne Bauchens is the oldest editor in the business. She was editing for years before I came into the business. DeMille was a bad editor, I thought, and made her look like a bad editor. I think Anne really would have been a good editor, but she had to put up with him––which was something."

Filmography

Sunset Boulevard

1950

As Editor (uncredited)

Production

The Ten Commandments

1956

As Editor

Cradle Song

1933

As Editor

Sons of the Legion

1938

As Editor

Women Without Names

1940

As Editor

Craig's Wife

1928

As Editor

Hunted Men

1938

As Editor

The Road to Yesterday

1925

As Editor

The Volga Boatman

1926

As Editor

The King of Kings

1927

As Editor

Chicago

1927

As Editor

The Godless Girl

1928

As Editor

Dynamite

1929

As Editor

Television Spy

1939

As Editor

This Mad World

1930

As Editor

Madam Satan

1930

As Editor

The Squaw Man

1931

As Editor

The Wet Parade

1932

As Editor

Samson and Delilah

1949

As Editor

The Plainsman

1936

As Editor

Adam's Rib

1923

As Editor

Reap the Wild Wind

1942

As Editor

The Crusades

1935

As Editor

Four Frightened People

1934

As Editor

The Sign of the Cross

1932

As Editor

Lord Byron of Broadway

1930

As Editor

Forbidden Fruit

1921

As Editor

Why Change Your Wife?

1920

As Editor

Carmen

1915

As Editor

This Day and Age

1933

As Editor

Union Pacific

1939

As Editor

Guilty Hands

1931

As Editor

The Buccaneer

1938

As Editor

Cleopatra

1934

As Editor

The Ten Commandments

1923

As Editor

Unconquered

1947

As Editor

Love Letters

1945

As Editor

The Beast of the City

1932

As Editor

Fool's Paradise

1921

As Editor

The Squaw Man

1918

As Editor

Male and Female

1919

As Editor

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