Cecil B. DeMille, young dramatist

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Cecil B. DeMille: The Art of the Hollywood Epic uses unseen art in the De Mille Archives to illustrate DeMille’s career book features concept paintings by Dan Sayre Groesbeck and Boris Leven; costume sketches by Travis Banton and Mitchell Leisen; and photographic portraits by Edward S.

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DeMille lived a life as epic as any of his cinematic masterpieces. As a child DeMille learned the Bible from his father, a theology student and playwright who introduced Cecil and his older brother, William, to the theater/5.

Interesting that Cecil B. DeMille's father studied theology and church history, led a bible study and conducting services as a lay reader.

However, because the church didn't want him he had to swap the pulpit for the stage. With the exception of 'The Greatest Show on Earth', all of his films after 'Four Frightened People' had a historical by: Cecil B.

DeMille, young dramatist by Hortense Myers (Book) Cecil B. DeMille: a guide to references and resources by Sumiko Cecil B. DeMille (Book). Cecil B. DeMille is Hollywood’s most enduring legend, remembered, and often reviled, for his grandiose biblical sagas, such as Samson and Delilah and his version of The Ten Commandments, with its cast of tens of thousands before computer graphics made the modern epic mundane.

Many judged DeMille a dinosaur both for his movies and his ultraconservative politics. Cecil Blount DeMille was born on Augin a boarding house on Main Street in Ashfield, Massachusetts, where his parents had been vacationing for the summer.

On September 1,the family returned with newborn DeMille to their flat in New York. DeMille was named after his grandmothers Cecelia Wolff and Margarete Blount. He was the second of three children of Henry. " ""Far and away the best film book published so far this year.""--National Board of Review Cecil B.

DeMille was the most successful filmmaker in early Hollywood history. Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood is a detailed and definitive chronicle of the screen work that changed the course of film history and a fascinating look at how movies were actually made in Hollywood's Golden Age.

While much of the Cecil B. DeMille archives are kept at Brigham Young University – Presley menti storyboards among the materials she’s. Nelson Richard DeMille was born in Jamaica (Queens) on Aug He is the son of builder Huron DeMille and his wife Antonia Panzera.

DeMille and his family moved to Long Island when he was a child; here he attended the Elmont Memorial high school, where. Cecil B. DeMille is the king of the Biblical epics. Few ever associate him with the more seemly aspects of cinema. In thewith Gloria Swanson as his muse, DeMille.

When scandals rocked Paramount, DeMille answered critics with a mammoth morality tale, The Ten Commandments. Cecil B. DeMille biography. If interested in comparing the silent film with both the book of Exodus and the version of the movie. Here it is.

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DeMille: The Art of the Hollywood Epic. Cecilia de Mille Presley and Mark A. Vieira. Published by Running Press-Perseus Books Cecil B.

DeMille, young dramatist by Hortense Myers (Book) 2 editions published in in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide. His parents Henry C. DeMille and Beatrice DeMille were playwrights. His father died when he and his mother supported the family by opening a school for girls and a theatrical company.

Too young to enlist in the Spanish-American War, Cecil followed his brother William C. de Mille to the New York Academy of Dramatic Arts, making his stage debut in Cecil B.

DeMille, in full Cecil Blount DeMille, (born AugAshfield, Massachusetts, U.S.—died JanuHollywood, Los Angeles, California), American motion-picture producer-director whose use of spectacle attracted vast audiences and made him a dominant figure in Hollywood for almost five decades.

Cecil B. DeMille. Film Director, Film/TV Producer (Aug — Jan) SUBJECT OF BOOKS. Cecil B. DeMille, Classical Hollywood, and Modern American Mass Culture: – by David Blanke: Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art by Simon Louvish: Cecil B. DeMille: Young Dramatist by Hortense Myers: DeMille: the man and his pictures by Gabe Essoe: The Demilles: An American Family by Anne Edwards: Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. With Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith. King Richard and the Third Crusade () are given the DeMille. BEST KNOWN AS THE DIRECTOR of such spectacular films as The Ten Commandments and King of Kings, Cecil B. DeMille lived a life as epic as any of his cinematic masterpieces.

As a child DeMille learned the Bible from his father, a theology student and playwright who introduced Cecil and his older brother, William, to the theater. Tutored by impresario David Belasco, DeMille discovered how 5/5(1). Cecil B. DeMille was a skilled self-promoter and poseur: he readily posed for the camera in the studio, at social events, and on location; he even had photographs taken of himself standing next to each new automobile.

here on the Cecil B. DeMille [] Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store. SMELLING POTENTIAL TROUBLE, Cecil B. DeMille took no chances when the cameras rolled for his epic ''The King of Kings.'' To keep scandal at bay, all the players, from the stately H.

NEW YORK -- The 75th anniversary of Cecil B. DeMille's first Hollywood film has touched off a round of observances around the country, and inspired the first book about the DeMille.

10 quotes from Cecil B. DeMille: 'Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.', 'Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.', and 'It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.'.

“Keeping the same house for four decades must be something of a record in Los Angeles,” Cecil B. De Mille wrote of his Mediterranean-style house in. Gladys Rosson was Cecil B. DeMille’s secretary for thirty-nine years, starting the summer she graduated high school in until her death in (DeMille and Hayne95).

She was also his mistress, part of his “harem,” or, as DeMille’s niece Agnes, calls it, his “seraglio”—the members of which vary according to sources. CHILDHOOD OF FAMOUS AMERICAN CECIL B DEMILLE YOUNG DRAMATIST EX LIB.

Shipped with USPS Media Mail. good condition. spine intact. library details on inside. moderate wear on cover and cornersEnd date:   Since seeing The Ten Commandments as a young girl, Katherine Orrison has been a fan of the film and director Cecil B.

DeMille, even writing a book. Early in the twentieth century, what should have been a most unlikely friendship curiously evolved into a lifelong amiable relationship between world-renowned filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille and David O. McKay, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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His parents Henry C. DeMille and Beatrice DeMille were playwrights. His father died when he and his mother supported the family by opening a school for girls and a theatrical company. Too young to enlist in the Spanish-American War, Cecil followed his brother William C.

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Discount books. Let the stories live on. Affordable books. InSidney received the Cecil B. DeMille award right here at the Golden Globes and it is not lost on me that at this moment, there are some little girls watching as I become the first black woman to be given this same award.

It is an honor—it is an honor and it is a privilege to share the evening with all of them and also with the.