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Long-lived innovator Eugene de Rue was involved behind-the-scenes for over 50 years. He started out with a walk-on appearance in DeMille's The Squaw Man; his four-year-old daughter Carmen had a starring role in the film. He then went on to do a variety of tasks ranging from cutter to assistant director until the early 1930s when he became a full-time film editor. His biggest innovation was the origination of dubbing, the mixing of sounds and dialog on a single soundtrack; later he specialized in dubbing foreign languages into Hollywood films. In 1933, he moved to Paris and founded his own studio where he worked until 1942. The following year, he returned to the States and began working with Universal where he developed new attachments for the Moviola editing machine that allowed him to further his newly developed editing techniques.