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Biography – Cecil B. DeMille
Overview
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...
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Filmography – Cecil B. DeMille
Filmography
Cecil B. DeMille was the consummate Renaissance man, as comfortable discussing astronomy as he was riding a horse, or inventing a lighting fixture. This diversity of interests contributed ...
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Legacy – Cecil B. DeMille
The Director as Superstar
Cecil B. DeMille used his own celebrity to create the prototype of the superstar director. The actor he was in his youth never left him, and he played to the crowds on his se...
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Discoveries – Cecil B. DeMille
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Author of Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist
The University Press of Kentucky, 2016
Cecil B. DeMille...
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Books on DeMille – Cecil B. DeMille
Books on DeMille
More than fifty books about Cecil B. DeMille have been published in the last ninety years. The books shown here are biographies that utilized the De Mille Archives. The books below de...
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Cleopatra – Cecil B. DeMille
Production Quote
“It was a hot, a blistering hot day. On a raised platform high above a mob of five hundred people was Director DeMille. Below him were men in leather pants laced up the sides, and in ...