Anne Bauchens

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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.

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