17 Facts About Dede Allen

Dorothea Corothers "Dede" Allen was an American film editor.

Dede Allen was a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Dede Allen's mother, Dorthea S Corothers, was an actress, and her father, Thomas Humphrey Cushing Allen III, worked for Union Carbide.

The next year, Dede Allen's father died in an automobile accident while her mother remained in Europe, leaving Dede Allen and her sister in boarding school for another six years.

Dede Allen studied architecture, weaving, and pottery at Scripps College in Claremont, California, where she remained passionate about film.

Dede Allen left Scripps to start a job as a messenger at Columbia Pictures.

In 1943, in the summer after her sophomore year of college, Dede Allen's grandfather secured her a job with Elliot Nugent Sr.

Dede Allen worked in the position for ten months, and then was hired into the sound effects department at Columbia.

In 1948, Dede Allen married Stephen Fleischman, who was working as a screenwriter in Hollywood.

Dede Allen began working with Carl Lerner, a screenwriter and editor who she had worked with her first summer at Columbia.

Lerner recommended her to Robert Wise, where Dede Allen edited her first important feature film, Odds Against Tomorrow.

Dede Allen worked closely with and was mentored by film director Robert Wise, who had been a film editor himself.

Dede Allen had a great influence on me because he was a tremendous editor in his own time so he knew.

Much like the raw editing of dadaist filmmaking or perhaps akin to that of the French New Wave, Dede Allen pioneered the use of audio overlaps and utilized emotional jump cuts, stylistic flourishes that brought energy and realism to characters that until that point had not been a part of classic Hollywood film editing technique.

In 1992, Dede Allen accepted the position of Vice-President in Charge of Creative Development at the Warner Bros.

Dede Allen was a women's rights activist and an advocate for unions.

Dede Allen died on April 17,2010, in Los Angeles, California from a stroke.