Career
When the Academy Award for Film Editing was created in 1934, Bauchens received one of the three nominations for her editing of Cleopatra. Bauchens was trained as an editor by DeMille, and shared her first cr 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 She edited DeMille"s films for the rest of their long careers, through the 1956 film The Ten Commandments.
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 editors
I think Anne really would have been a good editor, but she had to put up with him––which was something.".