Anne Bauchens (February 2, 1882 – May 7, 1967) 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 (1940), DeMille's first three-strip Technicolor film. She received two more nominations, for the Best Picture winner The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and the Best Picture nominee The Ten Commandments (1956), 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,Higashi, Sumiko (1994). Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era (University of California Press), p. 223. . and shared her first credit with him on the film Carmen (1915). Prior to 1918, DeMille had edited, as well as directed, his films.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. 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.Totals based on Bauchens' filmography compiled at the imdb.com website; filmography retrieved 2008-06-24.

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 (1927), and believed that Unconquered (1947) 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.

+ Anne Bauchens filmographyYearTitleNotes (as editor unless otherwise noted) 1915CarmenParamount PicturesLewis, 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 2008-06-22.1918The Squaw ManFamous Players LaskyEditor and director;1918We Can't Have EverythingFamous Players Lasky1918Till I Come Back to YouFamous Players Lasky1919 For Better, for Worse Famous Players Lasky 1919Male and FemaleFamous Players Lasky1919 Don't Change Your HusbandFamous Players Lasky1920 Why Change Your Wife?Famous Players Lasky1920Something to Think AboutFamous Players Lasky1921Forbidden FruitFamous Players Lasky1921The Affairs of AnatolFamous Players Lasky1922Saturday NightFamous Players Lasky1922Fool's ParadiseFamous Players Lasky1922ManslaughterFamous Players Lasky1923Adam's Rib Famous Players Lasky1923The Ten Commandments Famous Players Lasky1924Feet of Clay Famous Players Lasky1924Triumph Famous Players Lasky1925The Golden BedFamous Players Lasky1925The Road to Yesterday De Mille Pictures Corp.;1926 The Volga BoatmanCecil De Mille Pictures Corp.1927 The King of KingsDe Mille Pictures Corp.1928ChicagoDe Mille Pictures Corp.Copyright and release 1928;1928Craig's WifePathé Exchange1929 Dynamite MGM;1929The Godless GirlDe Mille Pictures Corp.; 1929Ned McCobb's DaughterPathé ExchangeCopyright November 1928; release January 19291929Noisy NeighborsPathé Exchange1930Lord Byron of BroadwayMGM;1930Madam Satan MGM;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 Pictures1933This Day and AgeParamount Pictures;1934MenaceParamount Pictures;1934Four Frightened PeopleParamount Pictures;1934CleopatraParamount Pictures1935The CrusadesParamount Pictures1936The PlainsmanParamount PicturesPicture wrapped 1936, copyrighted January 1, 1937;1937This Way PleaseParamount Pictures;1938The BuccaneerParamount Pictures;1938Bulldog Drummond in AfricaParamount Pictures1938Sons of the LegionParamount Pictures;1938Hunted MenParamount Pictures;1939Television Spy Paramount Pictures;1939Union PacificParamount Pictures;1940North West Mounted PoliceParamount PicturesBauchens won the Academy Award for film editing;1940Women Without NamesParamount Pictures;1942Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage PatchParamount Pictures;1942Reap the Wild WindParamount Pictures1942Commandos Strike at DawnColumbia PicturesLester Cowan Productions, Inc.;1944The Story of Dr. WassellParamount Pictures1944Tomorrow, the World!Lester Cowan Productions, Inc.1945Love LettersHal Wallis Productions, Inc.Paramount Pictures;1946Our Hearts Were Growing UpParamount Pictures1948UnconqueredParamount PicturesCopyrighted November 4, 1947; released February 4, 1948 1949Samson and DelilahParamount Pictures;1952The Greatest Show on EarthParamount Pictures;1956The Ten CommandmentsParamount Pictures;

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Anne Bauchens at Women Film Pioneers Project