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Cecil B. DeMille. Highest Rated: 100% The Plainsman (1936) Lowest Rated: 40% Madam Satan (1930) Birthday: Aug 12, 1881. Birthplace: Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA. Having emerged as a potent force ...
Died Jan. 21, 1959 of heart attack in Hollywood, CA. C ecil B. DeMille was a giant of the motion picture industry because he knew what the public wanted — and he was willing to work hard and spend the enormous sums necessary to provide it. The DeMille story virtually tells the history of Hollywood movies.
Unfortunately, DeMille couldn’t make it. The last Golden Globe Awards gala he attended was the 15th, in 1958. The Cecil B. DeMille award winners are chosen by the HFPA board of directors and presented each year (except for 1976). The first woman to receive the award was Judy Garland in 1962 (following Fred Astaire, something which delighted ...
Cecil Blount DeMille was an American filmmaker and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. His silent films included social dramas, comedies ...
Samson and Delilah (1949) “Samson and Delilah” is a 1949 biblical drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr in the title roles. The film is based on the biblical story of Samson and Delilah, and follows the life of Samson, a strongman who is betrayed by his lover Delilah and captured by the Philistines.
Cecil B. DeMille's final film, another version of The Ten Commandments , is his most widely seen work, thanks to Easter-time television programming, but it is not one of his most respected. Still, it was a huge success at the box office.
Jan 12, 2018 · The King of Kings (1927) The first real film about Jesus Christ, this one also set up the template by which all others would be measured until 1988. DeMille studied famous paintings that captured the life of Christ and brought them to the screen. Character actor H. B. Warner was fifty, but looked Thirty was cast as Christ, and gives a gently ...
