Anne Bauchens


Anne Bauchens was an American film editor who is remembered for her collaboration over 40 years with the producer-director Cecil B. DeMille.
In 1935, she became the first female nominee for the new Academy Award for Best Film Editing for her work in Cleopatra, which was also nominated for Outstanding Production. In 1941, she was nominated a second time and won for North West Mounted Police, DeMille's first three-strip Technicolor film. She received two more nominations, for the Best Picture winner The Greatest Show on Earth and the Best Picture nominee The Ten Commandments, her last film.
In 1956, she received the American Cinema Editors Achievement Award for "distinctive achievement in film editing and for outstanding contribution to the film industry over a period of years."

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. Prior to 1918, DeMille had edited, as well as directed, his films. After Carmen and We Can't Have Everything, 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.
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 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 and then for The Ten Commandments. In total, Bauchens is credited with editing on 43 films directed by DeMille and on 20 films with other directors.
In a 1947 newspaper article, Bauchens talked about some of the films she worked on. She said she got her "biggest thrill" from the 1923 version of The Ten Commandments; she considered it her most difficult assignment because DeMille had 16 cameras and shot enough footage for ten films. DeMille thought the Red Sea sequence was too long, but Bauchens convinced him to leave it as it was. She also said she got her "deepest emotional feeling" from The King of Kings, and believed that Unconquered was DeMille's best frontier film.
In 1956, Bauchens described DeMille as "actually two men in one, all business and strict when he works, and a magnificently gracious and easy host when at leisure. He is a man whose judgment you respect, who knows what he wants, who has temperament and fire but is courteous and who can tell a story better than anyone else."
In his autobiography, DeMille wrote:

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.
YearTitleNotes
1915CarmenParamount Pictures
1918The Squaw ManFamous Players Lasky
Editor and director
1918We Can't Have EverythingFamous Players Lasky
1918Till I Come Back to YouFamous Players Lasky
1919For Better, for WorseFamous Players Lasky
1919Male and FemaleFamous Players Lasky
1919Don't Change Your HusbandFamous Players Lasky
1920Why Change Your Wife?Famous Players Lasky
1920Something to Think AboutFamous Players Lasky
1921Forbidden FruitFamous Players Lasky
1921The Affairs of AnatolFamous Players Lasky
1922Saturday NightFamous Players Lasky
1922Fool's ParadiseFamous Players Lasky
1922ManslaughterFamous Players Lasky
1923Adam's RibFamous Players Lasky
1923The Ten CommandmentsFamous Players Lasky
1924Feet of ClayFamous Players Lasky
1924TriumphFamous Players Lasky
1925The Golden BedFamous Players Lasky
1925The Road to YesterdayDe Mille Pictures Corp.
1926The Volga BoatmanCecil De Mille Pictures Corp.
1927The King of KingsDe Mille Pictures Corp.
1928ChicagoDe Mille Pictures Corp.
Copyright and release 1928
1928Craig's WifePathé Exchange
1929DynamiteMGM
1929The Godless GirlDe Mille Pictures Corp.
1929Ned McCobb's DaughterPathé Exchange
Copyright November 1928; release January 1929
1929Noisy NeighborsPathé Exchange
1930Lord Byron of BroadwayMGM
1930Madam SatanMGM
1930This Mad WorldMGM
1931The Squaw ManMGM
1931Guilty HandsMGM
1932The Wet ParadeMGM
1932The Beast of the CityMGM
1932The Sign of the CrossParamount Pictures
1933Tonight Is OursParamount Pictures
1933This Day and AgeParamount Pictures
1934MenaceParamount Pictures
1934Four Frightened PeopleParamount Pictures
1934CleopatraParamount Pictures
1935The CrusadesParamount Pictures
1936The PlainsmanParamount Pictures
Picture wrapped 1936, copyrighted January 1, 1937
1937This Way PleaseParamount Pictures
1938The BuccaneerParamount Pictures
1938Bulldog Drummond in AfricaParamount Pictures
1938Sons of the LegionParamount Pictures
1938Hunted MenParamount Pictures
1939Television Spy Paramount Pictures
1939Union PacificParamount Pictures
1940North West Mounted PoliceParamount Pictures
Bauchens won the Academy Award for film editing
1940Women Without NamesParamount Pictures
1942Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage PatchParamount Pictures
1942Reap the Wild WindParamount Pictures
1942Commandos Strike at DawnColumbia Pictures
Lester Cowan Productions, Inc.
1944The Story of Dr. WassellParamount Pictures
1944Tomorrow, the World!Lester Cowan Productions, Inc.
1945Love LettersHal Wallis Productions, Inc.
Paramount Pictures
1946Our Hearts Were Growing UpParamount Pictures
1948UnconqueredParamount Pictures
Copyrighted November 4, 1947; released February 4, 1948
1949Samson and DelilahParamount Pictures
1952The Greatest Show on EarthParamount Pictures
1956The Ten CommandmentsParamount Pictures