ALLEN, Dede 1924(?)–

PERSONAL

Full name, Dorothea Carothers Allen; born December 3, 1924 (some sources cite 1925), in Cleveland, OH; father worked for Union Carbide; mother, an actress; married Stephen Fleischman (a director, documentary producer, news executive, and writer), c. 1950; children: Tom (a sound mixer), Ramey Ellis Ward (daughter; a production coordinator). Education: Attended Scripps College and Actors and Directors Laboratory, Los Angeles.

Addresses: Manager— Martin Bauer, Bauer Co., 9300 Wilshire Blvd., Penthouse, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career: Film editor and producer. Columbia Pictures, worked as messenger, beginning c. 1943, then as sound laboratory worker and assistant editor; Warner Bros., creative executive, c. 1992–97. Teacher at Los Angeles Film School. Also worked as a script clerk and editor of industrial films, documentary short films, and television commercials.

Awards, Honors: Eddie Award nominations, best edited feature film, American Cinema Editors, 1961, for The Hustler, and 1968, for Bonnie and Clyde; Academy Award nomination and Film Award, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, both best editing, 1976, for Dog Day Afternoon; Academy Award nomination, best editing, and Eddie Award nomination, best edited feature film, both (with Craig McKay) 1982, for Reds; Crystal Award, Women in Film, 1982; Career Achievement Award, American Cinema Editors, 1994; Career Achievement Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, 1999; Hollywood Discovery Award, outstanding achievement in music editing, Hollywood Film Festival, 1999; Sierra Award nomination, best editing, Las Vegas Film Critics Society, and Academy Award nomination, best editing, 2001, both for Wonder Boys.

CREDITS

Film Editor:

Because of Eve, International, 1948.

Endowing Your Future (short film), 1957.

Terror from the Year 5000 (also known as Cage of Doom, The Girl from 5000 A.D., and Terror from 5000 A.D. ), American International Pictures, 1958.

Odds against Tomorrow, United Artists, 1959.

The Hustler, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1961.

America, America (also known as The Anatolian Smile ), Warner Bros., 1963.

It's Always Now (short film), 1965.

Bonnie and Clyde, Warner Bros., 1967.

Rachel, Rachel, Warner Bros., 1968.

Alice's Restaurant, United Artists, 1969.

Little Big Man, National General, 1970.

Slaughterhouse–Five, Universal, 1972.

Coeditor, Visions of Eight, Cinema V, 1973.

(With Richard Marks) Serpico, Paramount, 1973.

Dog Day Afternoon, Warner Bros., 1975.

(With Jerry Greenberg and Stephen Rotter) Night Moves, Warner Bros., 1975.

(With Greenberg and Rotter) The Missouri Breaks, United Artists, 1976.

Slap Shot, Universal, 1977.

The Wiz, Universal, 1978.

(With Craig McKay; also executive producer, with Simon Relph) Reds, Paramount, 1981.

Harry and Son, Orion, 1984.

(With Jeff Gourson) Mike's Murder, Warner Bros., 1984.

The Breakfast Club, Universal, 1985.

(With Angelo Corrao) Off Beat, Buena Vista, 1986.

(With Jim Miller) The Milagro Beanfield War, Universal, 1988.

(With Miller) Let It Ride, Paramount, 1989.

Coeditor, Henry & June, Universal, 1990.

Coeditor, The Addams Family, Paramount, 1991.

Wonder Boys (also known as Die Wonder Boys ), Paramount, 2000.

John Q, New Line Cinema, 2002.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Interviewee, NYTV: By the People Who Made It, PBS, 1998.

Herself, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood, BBC (England), 2003.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Appeared in an episode of American Cinema, PBS.

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Volume 4: Writers and Production Artists, St. James Press, 1996.

Women Filmmakers and Their Films, St. James Press, 1998.

Periodicals:

Entertainment Weekly, March 23, 2001, p. 52.

Los Angeles, March, 2002, p. 84.