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Cecil B. DeMille's career as a director and producer spans five decades of motion pictures. After directing his first film, the 1914 silent The Squaw Man, DeMille went on to make seventy features, including westerns, adventures, musical comedies and war pictures before his death in 1959. He gave many actors such as Gloria Swanson their start in ...
Aug 7, 2022 · One of cinema’s earliest pioneers, Oscar winner Cecil B. DeMille helmed 70 films throughout the silent and sound era. He made his mark in a number of genres, but was most famous for his spect…
Jan 22, 2013 · It is about forty-five years ago since Cecil B. deMille, a young member of a theatrical family, sent his partner, Jesse L. Lasky, a telegram about renting a barn in "a place called Hollywood," for ...
Cecil Blount DeMille was a founder of the Hollywood motion-picture industry, one of the most commercially successful producer-directors of his time, and one of the most influential filmmakers in history. 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 ...
View Bio. “Give me any two pages of the Bible, and I’ll give you a picture.” -Cecil B. DeMille. (Born, August 13, 1881 – died January 21, 1959) Cecil Blount DeMille’s career plowed relentlessly forward living and dying again and again in waves – on the crests and in the troughs of the “American Dream.”. His overriding spirit ...
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 21--Cecil B. De Mille died of a heart ailment today in his home on De Mille Drive here. He was 77 years old. At his bedside when he died were a daughter, Cecilia, and her husband, Joseph Harper. Mrs.
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.
