Dede Allen (born Dorothea Carothers Allen, 3 December, 1923, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American film editor, well-known "film editing doctor" to the major American movie studios and one of cinema's all-time celebrated "auteur" film editors.
Allen is most known for having edited classic films such as Dog Day Afternoon, The Hustler, Reds and Bonnie and Clyde and for having worked with groundbreaking filmmakers such as Arthur Penn, Sidney Lumet, Ro...
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Dede Allen (born Dorothea Carothers Allen, 3 December, 1923, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American film editor, well-known "film editing doctor" to the major American movie studios and one of cinema's all-time celebrated "auteur" film editors.
Allen is most known for having edited classic films such as Dog Day Afternoon, The Hustler, Reds and Bonnie and Clyde and for having worked with groundbreaking filmmakers such as Arthur Penn, Sidney Lumet, Robert Wise, Elia Kazan, and George Roy Hill. She is a Member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Dede Allen is married to film director Stephen Fleischman. Her son is renowned sound re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman.
Allen worked her way up as a production runner, as a sound librarian and then as an assistant film editor at Columbia Pictures. She edited commercial and industrial films before becoming a full-fledged feature film editor. It took sixteen years working in the American film industry before...
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