Biography
Louisette Hautecoeur (also credited as Louisette Hautecœur, Louisette Hautecoeur-Taverna, Louisette Taverna-Hautecoeur or Louisette Taverna) was a French film editor. She was born on 23 May 1914 in Sevran, France, and died on 18 March 2004 in Chaumont-en-Vexin, France.
She began working as an editor in 1934 and remained active until 1976. Hautecoeur edited films directed by René Clair, Luis Buñuel, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Jean Grémillon, André Berthomieu and Marcel L'Herbier, among others. She was married to fellow editor Henri Taverna.
Her credits include Belle de Jour (1967), Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), The Milky Way (1969), This Special Friendship (1964), The Dominici Affair (1973), Christine (1958), Dr. Knock (1951), The Margin (1976), The Iron Mask (1962) and The Grand Manoeuvre (1955).
