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These will help show the range of subjects DeMille chose to film—Westerns, social dramas, marital comedies, and religious epics. Using a massive canvas, he told tales that were steeped in Victorian morality yet unmistakably of the twentieth century.
- Silent Features
DeMille soon saw that his image was bringing audiences to...
- Sound Features
In making the transition from silent films to sound films,...
- Guest Appearances
Selected Guest Appearances. A Trip to Paramountown (1922 –...
- Portrait Photographers
A Cecil B. DeMille portrait printed on “buff” portrait paper...
- Honorary Degrees
Brigham Young University bestowed an honorary Doctor of...
- Costumers
In 1914 Cecil B. DeMille wrote most of his early films but...
- Silent Features
- THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956) Screenplay by Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse L. Lasky Jr., Jack Gariss, Fredric M. Frank, based on ‘Prince of Egypt’ by Dorothy Clarke Wilson, ‘Pillar of Fire’ by J.H.
- CLEOPATRA (1934) Screenplay by Waldemar Young and Vincent Lawrence, adaptation by Bartlett Cormack. Starring Claudette Colbert, Warren Williams, Henry Wilcoxon, Joseph Schildkraut.
- THE KING OF KINGS (1927) Written by Jeannie Macpherson. Starring H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill.
- THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952) Written by Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Frank Cavett, Barre Lyndon. Starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, James Stewart, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame, Lyle Bettger.
1. The Squaw Man (1914) Not Rated | 74 min | Action, Drama, Romance. 5.6. Rate. A chivalrous British officer takes the blame for his cousin's embezzlement and journeys to the American West to start a new life on a cattle ranch. Directors: Oscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Monroe Salisbury, Winifred Kingston, Mrs. A.W. Filson.
Five of DeMille's films were the highest-grossing films at the year of their release, with only Spielberg topping him with six of his films as the highest-grossing films of the year. DeMille's highest-grossing films include: The Sign of the Cross (1932), Unconquered (1947), Samson and Delilah (1949), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), and The ...
His best-known were biblical/religious epics: Joan the Woman (1916), The Ten Commandments (1923), The King of Kings (1927), The Sign of the Cross (1932), The Crusades (1935), Samson and Delilah (1949), and The Ten Commandments (1956).
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Mar 19, 2024 · From Bible stories to swashbuckling action, these are producer-director Cecil B. DeMille's finest films, ranked. 10 'The Ten Commandments' (1923)
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Between 1914 and 1956, he made seventy feature films; all but seven were profitable. Cecil B. DeMille is synonymous with religious epics: The King of Kings, Samson and Delilah, and The Ten Commandments (1956). He blended spectacle, sex, and spellbinding narrative to convey a message of faith.