Anne Bauchens

Anne Bauchens, born Roseanne Bauchens, (February 2, 1882 – May 7, 1967)^[1] 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.

Anne Bauchens
Cast and crew from The Affairs of Anatol (1921), Bauchens is third from the left in the front row
Born	Roseanne Bauchens (1882-02-02)February 2, 1882 St. Louis, Missouri
Died	(1967-05-07)May 7, 1967 (aged 85) Woodland Hills, California
Resting place	Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Awards	Academy Award for Best Film Editing 1940 North West Mounted Police

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,^[2] and shared her first credit with him on the film Carmen (1915). Prior to 1918, DeMille had edited, as well as directed, his films.^[3] 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.^[4]

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."^[5]

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)	Ref(s)
1915	Carmen	Paramount Pictures	[5]
1918	The Squaw Man	Famous Players Lasky Editor and director	[6]
1918	We Can't Have Everything	Famous Players Lasky	[7]
1918	Till I Come Back to You	Famous Players Lasky	[8]
1919	For Better, for Worse	Famous Players Lasky	[9]
1919	Male and Female	Famous Players Lasky	[10]
1919	Don't Change Your Husband	Famous Players Lasky	[11]
1920	Why Change Your Wife?	Famous Players Lasky	[12]
1920	Something to Think About	Famous Players Lasky	[13]
1921	Forbidden Fruit	Famous Players Lasky	[14]
1921	The Affairs of Anatol	Famous Players Lasky	[15]
1922	Saturday Night	Famous Players Lasky	[16]
1922	Fool's Paradise	Famous Players Lasky	[17]
1922	Manslaughter	Famous Players Lasky	[18]
1923	Adam's Rib	Famous Players Lasky	[19]
1923	The Ten Commandments	Famous Players Lasky	[20]
1924	Feet of Clay	Famous Players Lasky	[21]
1924	Triumph	Famous Players Lasky	[22]
1925	The Golden Bed	Famous Players Lasky	[23]
1925	The Road to Yesterday	De Mille Pictures Corp.	[24]
1926	The Volga Boatman	Cecil De Mille Pictures Corp.	[25]
1927	The King of Kings	De Mille Pictures Corp.	[26]
1928	Chicago	De Mille Pictures Corp. Copyright and release 1928	[27]
1928	Craig's Wife	Pathé Exchange	[28]
1929	Dynamite	MGM	[29]
1929	The Godless Girl	De Mille Pictures Corp.	[30]
1929	Ned McCobb's Daughter	Pathé Exchange Copyright November 1928; release January 1929	[28]
1929	Noisy Neighbors	Pathé Exchange	[31]
1930	Lord Byron of Broadway	MGM	[32]
1930	Madam Satan	MGM	[33]
1930	This Mad World	MGM	[34]
1931	The Squaw Man	MGM	[35]
1931	Guilty Hands	MGM	[36]
1932	The Wet Parade	MGM	[37]
1932	The Beast of the City	MGM	[38]
1932	The Sign of the Cross	Paramount Pictures	[39]
1933	Tonight Is Ours	Paramount Pictures	[40]
1933	This Day and Age	Paramount Pictures	[41]
1934	Menace	Paramount Pictures	[42]
1934	Four Frightened People	Paramount Pictures	[43]
1934	Cleopatra	Paramount Pictures	[44]
1935	The Crusades	Paramount Pictures	[45]
1936	The Plainsman	Paramount Pictures Picture wrapped 1936, copyrighted January 1, 1937	[46]
1937	This Way Please	Paramount Pictures	[47]
1938	The Buccaneer	Paramount Pictures	[48]
1938	Bulldog Drummond in Africa	Paramount Pictures	[49]
1938	Sons of the Legion	Paramount Pictures	[50]
1938	Hunted Men	Paramount Pictures	[51]
1939	Television Spy	Paramount Pictures	[52]
1939	Union Pacific	Paramount Pictures	[53]
1940	North West Mounted Police	Paramount Pictures Bauchens won the Academy Award for film editing	[54]
1940	Women Without Names	Paramount Pictures	[55]
1942	Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch	Paramount Pictures	[56]
1942	Reap the Wild Wind	Paramount Pictures	[57]
1942	Commandos Strike at Dawn	Columbia Pictures Lester Cowan Productions, Inc.	[58]
1944	The Story of Dr. Wassell	Paramount Pictures	[59]
1944	Tomorrow, the World!	Lester Cowan Productions, Inc.	[60]
1945	Love Letters	Hal Wallis Productions, Inc. Paramount Pictures	[61]
1946	Our Hearts Were Growing Up	Paramount Pictures	[62]
1948	Unconquered	Paramount Pictures Copyrighted November 4, 1947; released February 4, 1948	[63]
1949	Samson and Delilah	Paramount Pictures	[64]
1952	The Greatest Show on Earth	Paramount Pictures	[65]
1956	The Ten Commandments	Paramount Pictures	[66]

Bibliography

• Birchard, Robert S. S. (2009). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2636-4.(subscription required)

References

1. Smith, Fredrick Y., ed. (1971). "In Memoriam". ACE Second Decade Anniversary Book. American Cinema Editors, Inc. p. 73.
2. Higashi, Sumiko (1994). Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era (University of California Press), p. 223. ISBN 0-520-08557-4.
3. The original 1915 version of Carmen appears to be lost; Bauchens' credit as co-editor is for the 1918 re-release of the film. See p. 217 of the book by Sumiko Higashi.
4. Totals based on Bauchens' filmography compiled at the imdb.com website; filmography retrieved 2008-06-24.
5. Lewis, Kevin (2006). "The Moviola Mavens and the Moguls: Three Pioneering Women Editors Who Had the Respect of Early Hollywood's Power-Brokers", in Editors Guild Magazine, Vol 27, No. 2 (March–April 2006). Archived at WebCite from this original URL 2008-06-22.
6. "The Squaw Man". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"The Squaw Man". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
7. "We Can't Have Everything". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
8. "Till I Come Back to You". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
9. "For Better, For Worse". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
10. "Male and Female". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
11. "Don't Change Your Husband". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
12. "Why Change Your Wife?". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
13. "Something to Think About". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
14. "Forbidden Fruit – Cecil B. DeMille". Cecil B. De Mille Foundation. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
15. Birchard 2009, p. 162.
16. Birchard 2009, p. 169.
17. Birchard 2009, p. 165.
18. "Manslaughter". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
19. Birchard 2009, p. 175.
20. "The Ten Commandments". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
21. Birchard 2009, p. 194.
22. "Triumph". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
23. Birchard 2009, p. 197.
24. "The Road to Yesterday". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"The Road to Yesterday". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
25. "The Volga Boatman". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
26. "The King of Kings". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
27. "Chicago". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"Chicago". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
28. "Craig's Wife". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
29. "Dynamite". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"Dynamite". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
30. "The Godless Girl". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.; "The Godless Girl". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
31. "Noisy Neighbors". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
32. "Lord Byron of Broadway". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"Lord Byron of Broadway". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
33. "Madam Satan". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"Madam Satan". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
34. "This Mad World". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"This Mad World". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
35. "The Squaw Man (1931 film)". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"The Squaw Man (1931 film)". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
36. "Guilty Hands". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"Guilty Hands". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
37. "The Wet Parade". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"The Wet Parade". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
38. "The Beast of the City". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"The Beast of the City". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
39. "The Sign of the Cross". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"The Sign of the Cross". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
40. "Tonight Is Ours". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
41. "This Day and Age". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"This Day and Age". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
42. "Menace". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"Menace". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
43. "Four Frightened People". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"Four Frightened People". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
44. "Cleopatra". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
45. "The Crusades". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
46. "The Plainsman". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"The Plainsman". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
47. "This Way Please". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"This Way Please". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
48. "The Buccaneer". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"The Buccaneer". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
49. "Bulldog Drummond in Africa". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
50. "Sons of the Legion". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"Sons of the Legion". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
51. "Hunted Men". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"Hunted Men". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
52. "[Television Spy". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"[Television Spy". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
53. "Union Pacific". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"Union Pacific". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
54. "North West Mounted Police". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"The 13th Academy Awards | 1941". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
55. "Women Without Names". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"Women Without Names". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
56. "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
57. "Reap the Wild Wind". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
58. "Commandos Strike at Dawn". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"Commandos Strike at Dawn". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
59. "The Story of Dr. Wassell". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
60. "Tomorrow, the World". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
61. "Love Letters". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"Love Letters". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
62. "Our Hearts Were Growing Up". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
63. "Unconquered". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
64. "Samson and Delilah". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"Samson and Delilah". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
65. "The Greatest Show on Earth". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"The Greatest Show on Earth". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
66. "The Ten Commandments". AFI|Catalog. Retrieved October 11, 2020.;"The Ten Commandments". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2020.

External links

• Biography portal

• Anne Bauchens at IMDb
• Anne Bauchens at Women Film Pioneers Project
• Anne Bauchens at Find a Grave