Anne Bauchens
# Anne Bauchens

Anne Bauchens, born Roseanne Bauchens, (February 2, 1882 – May 7, 1967) was an American film editor who is remembered for her collaboration over 40 years with the director Cecil B. DeMille. In 1940, she won the Academy Award for film editing.

## Personal life

Originally Roseanne Bauchens, she was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Otto Bauchens and Louella McKee. She had a brother named Harry. She never married.

## Hollywood career

Bauchens was trained as an editor by DeMille, and shared her first credit with him on the film Carmen (1915). 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 film The Ten Commandments (1956).

When the Academy Award for Best 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) and became the first woman to win the Oscar in that category. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing again twice, first for The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and then for The Ten Commandments (1956). In total, Bauchens is credited with editing on 43 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 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

NOTE: Some films were released/premiered at the end of a given year, but not copyrighted until the beginning of the following year. The sources themselves are inconsistent as to which date they applied to a given film. Either date might be used in the title of its corresponding Wikipedia article.

Anne Bauchens filmography :

| Year | Title | Notes (as editor unless otherwise noted) |
| - | - | - |
| 1915 | Carmen | Paramount Pictures |
| 1918 | The Squaw Man | Famous Players Lasky Editor and director |
| 1918 | We Can't Have Everything | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1918 | Till I Come Back to You | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1919 | For Better, for Worse | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1919 | Male and Female | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1919 | Don't Change Your Husband | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1920 | Why Change Your Wife? | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1920 | Something to Think About | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1921 | Forbidden Fruit | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1921 | The Affairs of Anatol | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1922 | Saturday Night | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1922 | Fool's Paradise | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1922 | Manslaughter | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1923 | Adam's Rib | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1923 | The Ten Commandments | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1924 | Feet of Clay | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1924 | Triumph | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1925 | The Golden Bed | Famous Players Lasky |
| 1925 | The Road to Yesterday | De Mille Pictures Corp. |
| 1926 | The Volga Boatman | Cecil De Mille Pictures Corp. |
| 1927 | The King of Kings | De Mille Pictures Corp. |
| 1928 | Chicago | De Mille Pictures Corp. Copyright and release 1928 |
| 1928 | Craig's Wife | Pathé Exchange |
| 1929 | Dynamite | MGM |
| 1929 | The Godless Girl | De Mille Pictures Corp. |
| 1929 | Ned McCobb's Daughter | Pathé Exchange Copyright November 1928; release January 1929 |
| 1929 | Noisy Neighbors | Pathé Exchange |
| 1930 | Lord Byron of Broadway | MGM |
| 1930 | Madam Satan | MGM |
| 1930 | This Mad World | MGM |
| 1931 | The Squaw Man | MGM |
| 1931 | Guilty Hands | MGM |
| 1932 | The Wet Parade | MGM |
| 1932 | The Beast of the City | MGM |
| 1932 | The Sign of the Cross | Paramount Pictures |
| 1933 | Tonight Is Ours | Paramount Pictures |
| 1933 | This Day and Age | Paramount Pictures |
| 1934 | Menace | Paramount Pictures |
| 1934 | Four Frightened People | Paramount Pictures |
| 1934 | Cleopatra | Paramount Pictures |
| 1935 | The Crusades | Paramount Pictures |
| 1936 | The Plainsman | Paramount Pictures Picture wrapped 1936, copyrighted January 1, 1937 |
| 1937 | This Way Please | Paramount Pictures |
| 1938 | The Buccaneer | Paramount Pictures |
| 1938 | Bulldog Drummond in Africa | Paramount Pictures |
| 1938 | Sons of the Legion | Paramount Pictures |
| 1938 | Hunted Men | Paramount Pictures |
| 1939 | Television Spy | Paramount Pictures |
| 1939 | Union Pacific | Paramount Pictures |
| 1940 | North West Mounted Police | Paramount Pictures Bauchens won the Academy Award for film editing |
| 1940 | Women Without Names | Paramount Pictures |
| 1942 | Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch | Paramount Pictures |
| 1942 | Reap the Wild Wind | Paramount Pictures |
| 1942 | Commandos Strike at Dawn | Columbia Pictures Lester Cowan Productions, Inc. |
| 1944 | The Story of Dr. Wassell | Paramount Pictures |
| 1944 | Tomorrow, the World! | Lester Cowan Productions, Inc. |
| 1945 | Love Letters | Hal Wallis Productions, Inc. Paramount Pictures |
| 1946 | Our Hearts Were Growing Up | Paramount Pictures |
| 1948 | Unconquered | Paramount Pictures Copyrighted November 4, 1947; released February 4, 1948 |
| 1949 | Samson and Delilah | Paramount Pictures |
| 1952 | The Greatest Show on Earth | Paramount Pictures |
| 1956 | The Ten Commandments | Paramount Pictures |
