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he receives, from God, the Ten Commandments. The film stars Charlton Heston in the lead role, Yul Brynner as Rameses, Anne Baxter as Nefretiri, Edward G. Robinson as Dathan, Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora, Debra Paget as Lilia, and John Derek as Joshua; and features Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Sethi, Nina Foch as Bithiah, Martha Scott as Yoshebel, Judith Anderson as Memnet, and Vincent Price as Baka, among others. Filmed on location in Egypt, Mount Sinai and the Sinai Peninsula, the film was DeMille's last and most successful work. It is a partial remake of his 1923 silent film of
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DeMille continued to please the public. He averaged one film a year; most of them centered on historical figures or Bible stories. His first attempt at a drama set within a semi-documentary frame was "The Greatest Show on Earth", a saga of circus performers released in 1952. His experiment gained him a nomination for best director and won an Academy Award for Best Picture that year. In 1954, DeMille began his last film, the production for which he is best remembered, "The Ten Commandments". On November 7, 1954, while in Egypt filming the Exodus sequence for "The Ten Commandments", DeMille
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The Ten Commandments (1956 film) The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in VistaVision (color by Technicolor), and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on "Prince of Egypt" by Dorothy Clarke Wilson, "Pillar of Fire" by J.H. Ingraham, "On Eagle's Wings" by A.E. Southon, and the Book of Exodus. "The Ten Commandments" dramatizes the biblical story of the life of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince who becomes the deliverer of his real brethren, the enslaved Hebrews, and therefore leads the Exodus to Mount Sinai, where
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audience to see it in its original VistaVision aspect ratio. In 2015, for the first time in several years, the network undertook a one-off airing of the film on Easter Sunday night, which fell on April 5. The Ten Commandments (1956 film) The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in VistaVision (color by Technicolor), and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on "Prince of Egypt" by Dorothy Clarke Wilson, "Pillar of Fire" by J.H. Ingraham, "On Eagle's Wings" by A.E. Southon, and the Book of
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2003, in Orono, Maine, at the age of 98. In addition to her many plays, essays, and lectures, Wilson's work includes: Dorothy Clarke Wilson Dorothy Clarke Wilson (May 9, 1904 – March 26, 2003) was an American writer, perhaps best known for her novel "Prince of Egypt" (1949), which was a primary source for the Cecil B. DeMille film, "The Ten Commandments" (1956). Dorothy Wright Clarke was born on May 9, 1904, in Gardiner, Maine, to Lewis Herbert Clarke, a Baptist minister, and his wife Flora Eva (Cross) Clarke. She attended Cony High School in Augusta, graduating at seventeen as
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Dorothy Clarke Wilson Dorothy Clarke Wilson (May 9, 1904 – March 26, 2003) was an American writer, perhaps best known for her novel "Prince of Egypt" (1949), which was a primary source for the Cecil B. DeMille film, "The Ten Commandments" (1956). Dorothy Wright Clarke was born on May 9, 1904, in Gardiner, Maine, to Lewis Herbert Clarke, a Baptist minister, and his wife Flora Eva (Cross) Clarke. She attended Cony High School in Augusta, graduating at seventeen as valedictorian of her class. In 1925 she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Bates College in Lewiston, and on August 31 of
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wrote and illustrated historical stories for the magazine. His talents made him a popular illustrator for advertising, posters and catalogues, working for LNER (designing posters for Southport and Blackpool), Ovaltine, Burberry's (the sporting outfitters) and many others. Matania was also recommented to Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille and produced a number of paintings of Rome and Egypt from which authentic designs could be made for the movie The Ten Commandments. In 1933, Matania applied his very realistic style to illustrations for Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Pirates of Venus" and in 1933-24 to Burrough's "Lost on Venus." In later years, he provided
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identified their great value. In 1999, Jamieson sold the Egyptian artifacts in the collection, including the various mummies, to the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia for US $2 million. The mummy was returned to Egypt on October 24, 2003 with full official honors and is on display at the Luxor Museum. The 1956 motion picture "The Ten Commandments", directed by Cecil B. DeMille, depicts Rameses I (portrayed by Ian Keith) as the pharaoh who orders the elimination of the first-born of every Hebrew slave family in Egypt, leading to the scenario of future prophet Moses
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dollars. "The Ten Commandments" received generally positive reviews after its release, although some reviewers noted its divergence from the biblical text. Bosley Crowther for "The New York Times" was among those who lauded DeMille's work, acknowledging that "in its remarkable settings and décor, including an overwhelming facade of the Egyptian city from which the Exodus begins, and in the glowing Technicolor in which the picture is filmed—Mr. DeMille has worked photographic wonders." "Variety" described the "scenes of the greatness that was Egypt, and Hebrews by the thousands under the whip of the taskmasters" as "striking," and believed that the film
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vaudeville then minor parts in silent movies. LeRoy worked in costumes, processing labs and as a camera assistant until he became a gag writer and actor in silent films, including "The Ten Commandments" in 1923. LeRoy credits "Ten Commandments" director, Cecil B. DeMille, for inspiring him to become a director: "As the top director of the era, DeMille had been the magnet that had drawn me to his set as often as I could go." LeRoy also credits DeMille for teaching him the directing techniques required to make his own films. His first directing job was in 1927's "No Place
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films he made at Paramount between 1932 and 1947 were sold by that company to EMKA, Ltd. in 1957, and are available through the television division of NBCUniversal. 3. DeMille's last three films were not sold to EMKA, and at present remain with Paramount. Television distribution for those films is handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media. "The Ten Commandments" is broadcast every Easter Sunday in the United States on the ABC Television Network. Silent films Sound films Criticism and commentary Archival materials Cecil B. DeMille Cecil Blount DeMille (; August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker.
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reunited her with Duff in "Flame of the Islands" (1956), shot in the Bahamas. In September 1954, producer-director Cecil B. DeMille cast her as Sephora, the wife of Moses (played by Charlton Heston), in his biblical epic "The Ten Commandments", a Paramount Pictures production which premiered in November 1956. In his autobiography, DeMille explained he decided to cast De Carlo as Moses' wife after his casting director, Bert McKay, called his attention to one scene she played in "Sombrero". Even though the film "was a picture far removed in theme from "The Ten Commandments"," wrote DeMille, "I sensed in her
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50th Anniversary DVD release of the 1956 film. In the DVD commentary with Katherine Orrison included with the 1923 film, she states that DeMille refilmed several sequences nearly shot-for-shot for the new version, and also had set pieces constructed for the later film that were near-duplicates of what he had used in 1923: On March 29, 2011, Paramount released a new Blu-ray Disc with the 6-disc box set. The Ten Commandments (1923 film) The Ten Commandments is a 1923 American silent religious, epic film and produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Written by Jeanie MacPherson, the film is divided
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Order of Eagles placed possibly thousands of Ten Commandments displays in courthouses and school rooms, including many stone monuments on courthouse property. Because displaying the commandments can reflect a sectarian position if they are numbered (see above), the Eagles developed an ecumenical version that omitted the numbers, as on the monument at the Texas capitol (shown here). Hundreds of monuments were also placed by director Cecil B. DeMille as a publicity stunt to promote his 1956 film "The Ten Commandments". Placing the plaques and monuments to the Ten Commandments in and around government buildings was another expression of mid-twentieth century
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City in 1884. He built a house for his family in Wayne, New Jersey. The family spent time in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, operating a private school in that town and attending Christ Episcopal Church. DeMille recalled that this church was the place where he visualized the story of his 1923 version of "The Ten Commandments". Henry read to his children nightly, both from the classics and from the Bible. DeMille studied Scripture his entire life and read the Bible during lunch in the studio commissary. He was the first to admit that he did not attend church services but
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and a half hour score as originally recorded by Bernstein, with much of it remixed in true stereo for the first time. In addition, the 2016 release contains all the diegetic music recorded for the film, the original 1957 Dot album (in mono), the 1960 Dot album (in stereo), and the 1966 United Artists album, as well a 12-minute recording of Bernstein auditioning his thematic ideas for DeMille on the piano. Cecil B. DeMille promoted the film by placing Ten Commandment monuments as a publicity stunt for the film in cities across the United States. "The Ten Commandments" premiered at
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The Ten Commandments (1923 film) The Ten Commandments is a 1923 American silent religious, epic film and produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Written by Jeanie MacPherson, the film is divided into two parts: a prologue recreating the biblical story of the Exodus and a modern story concerning two brothers and their respective views of the Ten Commandments. Lauded for its "immense and stupendous" scenes, use of Technicolor process 2, and parting of the Red Sea sequence, the expensive film proved to be a box-office hit upon release. It is the first in DeMille's biblical trilogy, followed by "The
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Horizons" (1955) alongside Fred MacMurray. He tried a comedy "The Private War of Major Benson" (1955) at Universal, then supported Jane Wyman in a drama "Lucy Gallant" (1955). Heston became an icon for playing Moses in the hugely successful biblical epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956), selected by director Cecil B. DeMille, who thought Heston bore an uncanny resemblance to Michelangelo's statue of Moses. DeMille cast Heston's three-month-old son, Fraser Clarke Heston, as the infant Moses. "The Ten Commandments" became one of the greatest box office successes of all time and is the seventh highest-grossing film adjusted for inflation. His portrayal
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2005, carry maximum penalties of $20,000 per violation. On March 2, 2005, Abbott appeared before the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., where he defended a Ten Commandments monument on grounds of the Texas State Capitol. Dozens of similar monuments were donated to cities and towns across the nation throughout the 1960s by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, who were inspired by the 1956 epic "The Ten Commandments;" in doing so, they gained the support of the film's director Cecil B. DeMille. The Supreme Court held in a 5–4 decision that the Texas display did not violate the First
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to allow the group to erect a monument of Summum aphorisms next to the ten commandments. The cases were won on the grounds that Summum's right to freedom of speech was denied and the governments had engaged in discrimination. Instead of allowing Summum to erect its monument, the local governments chose to remove their ten commandments. Two famous films of this name were directed by Cecil B. DeMille: a silent movie released in 1923 starring Theodore Roberts as Moses and a colour VistaVision version of 1956, starring Charlton Heston as Moses. Both "Dekalog", a 1989 Polish film series directed by
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Anne Bauchens Anne Bauchens (February 2, 1882 – May 7, 1967) was an American film editor who is particularly noted for her collaboration over 40 years with the director Cecil B. DeMille. Bauchens was trained as an editor by DeMille, and shared her first credit with him on the film "Carmen". Prior to 1918, DeMille had edited, as well as directed, his films. After "Carmen" and "We Can't Have Everything" (1918), Bauchens no longer shared the editing credits with DeMille. She edited DeMille's films for the rest of their long careers, through the 1956 film "The Ten Commandments". When the
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of his pictures, it would be very silly of me, as a producer of commercial motion pictures, to demean for an instant his unparalleled skill as a maker of mass entertainment." DeMille appeared as himself in numerous films, including the M-G-M comedy "Free and Easy." He often appeared in his coming-attraction trailers and narrated many of his later films, even stepping on screen to introduce "The Ten Commandments". DeMille was immortalized in Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard" when Gloria Swanson spoke the line: "All right, Mr. DeMille. I'm ready for my closeup." DeMille plays himself in the film. In the 1940s,
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launched a nationwide campaign to post copies of the Ten Commandments in juvenile courts across the country. His goal - to provide a moral foundation for troubled youth. In 1956, director Cecil B. DeMille's epic film "The Ten Commandments" opens across the country. DeMille and Ruegemer drum up publicity for the film by working together to erect granite monuments of the Ten Commandments across the nation. Although there is no official record of how many monuments were erected, numbers range from less than 100 to more than 2,000. The Fraternal Order of Eagles kept the project going long after the
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Relief Society at all levels, under priesthood oversight. Such organization became known as auxiliary organizations, which continue to the present. Famous film director Cecil B. DeMille consulted with McKay during the production of "The Ten Commandments," forming a friendship until DeMille's death. McKay invited DeMille to BYU, where he delivered a commencement address in 1957. McKay regularly traveled until his 90s. His deteriorating health in the mid-1960s ultimately led to the appointment of three additional counselors in the First Presidency, as existing members were increasingly infirm and often unable to preside at meetings. By 1968, the First Presidency was composed
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the toppling of the pagan temple in "Samson and Delilah"; train wrecks in "The Road to Yesterday", "Union Pacific" and "The Greatest Show on Earth"; the destruction of an airship in "Madam Satan"; and the parting of the Red Sea in both versions of "The Ten Commandments". DeMille first used three-strip Technicolor in "North West Mounted Police" (1940). Audiences liked its highly saturated color, so DeMille made no further black-and-white features. DeMille was one of the first directors to become a celebrity in his own right. He cultivated the image of the omnipotent director, complete with megaphone, riding crop, and
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received good notices for the play. The films she appeared in included "Shock Treatment" and "Caged". In 1948, director Cecil B. DeMille cast her as Miriam, the Danite girl who loves Samson, in his film "Samson and Delilah". In his autobiography, DeMille wrote that Deering was "one whose talent and dedication to her art should carry her very far in the theater, whether on screen or stage." DeMille cast her again, this time in the role of the real biblical Miriam, the sister of Moses, in "The Ten Commandments" (1956). Deering also appeared on many radio programs, which included "Lone
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Katherine Orrison Katherine Orrison (born November 18, 1948) is an American set decorator, art director, producer, costumer, author and film historian specializing in the films of Cecil B. DeMille, the life and career of actor Henry Wilcoxon, and the epic film "The Ten Commandments". Orrison was born in Anniston, Alabama to John M. Orrison and Mary H. Orrison. She spent time visiting her grandparents in Pompano Beach, Florida when she was young. She was inspired to pursue film after seeing "The Ten Commandments" film when she was 9 years old. She even started putting lamb's blood on her doorposts after
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knew these paintings would have so much impact that the Church would decide to put them in all copies of the Book of Mormon. They also caught the eye of Hollywood scouts searching for an artist for Cecil B. DeMille's epic motion picture "The Ten Commandments". DeMille was shown some of Friberg's paintings by a publisher friend and hired him. Starting in 1953, Friberg spent three years in Hollywood as DeMille's chief artist and designer working on the previsualization paintings for "The Ten Commandments". Friberg's paintings included costume design for the main characters, for which he won an Academy Award
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service ended on May 15, 1954. With the loss of the theater chain, Paramount Pictures went into a decline, cutting studio-backed production, releasing its contract players, and making production deals with independents. By the mid-1950s, all the great names were gone; only Cecil B. DeMille, associated with Paramount since 1913, kept making pictures in the grand old style. Despite Paramount's losses, DeMille would, however, give the studio some relief and create his most successful film at Paramount, a 1956 remake of his 1923 film "The Ten Commandments". DeMille died in 1959. Like some other studios, Paramount saw little value in
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painting above Akhnaton's throne. With that said, the ankh was used in the original novel. Likewise, Akhnaton's dying revelation that God is much more than the face of the sun is actually found among Waltari's best-known writings. Some of the sets, costumes, and props from this film were bought and re-used by Cecil B. DeMille for "The Ten Commandments" (1956). As the events in that story take place seventy years after those in "The Egyptian", this re-use creates an unintended sense of continuity. The commentary track on the "Ten Commandments" DVD points out many of these re-uses. Only three actors,
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in Genesis was the 1904 French film "Joseph Vendu Par Ses Frères" ("Joseph Sold by his Brothers"). Enrico Guazzoni's 1913 Italian epic "Quo Vadis?" is often considered the first successful feature-length motion picture and one of the first films with over two hours running time. Cecil B. DeMille specialized in extravagant epics throughout a career that spanned both the silent and sound eras. His 1923 silent version of "The Ten Commandments" (1923) included spectacular special effects for the parting of the Red Sea. De Mille followed "The Ten Commandments" in 1927 with "King of Kings", a lavish, reverential life of
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the year of Curtis's divorce, and left to open her own studio. Around 1922, Curtis moved to Los Angeles with Beth and opened a new photo studio. To earn money he worked as an assistant cameraman for Cecil B. DeMille and was an uncredited assistant cameraman in the 1923 filming of "The Ten Commandments". On October 16, 1924, Curtis sold the rights to his ethnographic motion picture "In the Land of the Head-Hunters" to the American Museum of Natural History. He was paid $1,500 for the master print and the original camera negative. It had cost him over $20,000 to
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of 1956 by "The Film Daily"'s Filmdom's Famous Five Poll. Heston was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama and later won the Fotograma de Plata Award for Best Foreign Performer in 1959. Yul Brynner won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for his performance as Rameses. Cecil B. DeMille won many special awards for the film. He received, among others, the "Los Angeles Examiner" Award, the "Boxoffice" Blue Ribbon Award for the Best Picture of the Month (January 1957), the "Photoplay" Achievement Award, and
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Peverell Marley John Peverell Marley (August 14, 1899 – February 2, 1964) was an American cinematographer. He is one of only six cinematographers to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Marley is credited under several different names including Pev Marley, Peverell Marley, Peverly Marley, and Peveerell Marley. Born in San Jose, California, Marley began his career soon after graduating high school during the silent film era. His first film was the 1923 Cecil B. DeMille biblical epic "The Ten Commandments". He later became DeMille's chief cameraman and would continue to work with DeMille throughout his career. He
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Christian and Jewish heritage to convey a message of tolerance. "The Crusades" was the first film to show accord between Christians and Muslims. DeMille received more than a dozen awards from Jewish religious and cultural groups, including B’nai B’rith. In 1954, he was seeking approval for a lavish remake of his 1923 silent film "The Ten Commandments". He went before the Paramount board of directors, which was mostly Jewish-American. The members rejected his proposal, even though his last two films, "Samson and Delilah" and "The Greatest Show on Earth", had been record-breaking hits. Adolph Zukor, the chairman of the board,
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of 17 in the last months of World War II. After leaving the Merchant Marine, he worked doing odd jobs in Brownwood, Texas, Long Beach, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada, where he worked as a doorman at the Sands Hotel. Walker was also employed as a sheet metal worker and a nightclub bouncer. Walker became a client of Henry Willson, who renamed him "Jett Norman" and cast him to appear in a Bowery Boys film ("Jungle Gents") as a Tarzan-type character. In Los Angeles, he was hired by Cecil B. DeMille to appear in "The Ten Commandments". A friend in
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the use of acoustic megaphones not only to increase the volume of sound, but also to protect performers’ voices in the process. For decades, film directors have used megaphones to communicate with their cast and crew on sets where it was hard to hear. The acoustic megaphone became an iconic clichéd symbol of a movie director, although modern directors use electric megaphones. A major contributor to this cliche was Cecil B. DeMille, director of epic movies like "The Ten Commandments" and "The King of Kings". Many of his films were biblical epics set on vast outdoor sets that required communication
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New York City's Criterion Theatre on November 8, 1956. Among those who attended the premiere were Cecil B. DeMille and his daughter Cecilia DeMille Harper, Charlton Heston and his wife Lydia Clarke, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo and her husband Bob Morgan, Martha Scott and her husband and son, John Wayne and his wife Pilar Pallete, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, and Barney Balaban. It played on a roadshow basis with reserved seating until mid-1958, when it finally entered general release. It was re-released in 1966 and 1972, and one more time in 1989. The 1972
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went to trial in February 1930 but eventually was settled without additional publicity. Surratt, who had left films to return to the stage in 1917, appeared to be unofficially blacklisted after the suit. The King of Kings (1927 film) The King of Kings is a 1927 American silent epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It depicts the last weeks of Jesus before his crucifixion and stars H. B. Warner in the lead role. Featuring the opening and resurrection scenes in two-color Technicolor, the film is the second in DeMille's biblical trilogy, preceded by "The Ten Commandments" (1923)
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The King of Kings (1927 film) The King of Kings is a 1927 American silent epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It depicts the last weeks of Jesus before his crucifixion and stars H. B. Warner in the lead role. Featuring the opening and resurrection scenes in two-color Technicolor, the film is the second in DeMille's biblical trilogy, preceded by "The Ten Commandments" (1923) and followed by "The Sign of the Cross" (1932). We see Mary Magdalene, here portrayed as a wild courtesan, entertain many men around her. Upon learning that Judas is with a carpenter she
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"Ma Jones" in the film version of "Lightnin'" (1925), a screen production which featured Will Rogers. Edythe was "Grandmother Janeway" in "Man Crazy" (1927). The film starred Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall. Chapman was praised by reviewers for her performance. Chapman came to Hollywood around 1909 with her husband, screen and stage actor, James Neill. The couple met in Cincinnati when Chapman was working in Neill's stock company. The couple got married in 1897 and soon began making movies with Cecil B. DeMille and other noteworthy directors and producers. They had leading roles in "The Ten Commandments" (1923), "Manslaughter" (1922),
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Natchez" (1954), "Jungle Gents" (1954) a Bowery Boys movie set in Africa, and "The Silver Chalice" (1954). He was in a TV adaptation of "Mandrake the Magician" (1954), a pilot for a series that was not picked up, and had small parts in "Son of Sinbad" (1955), "Soldiers of Fortune" (1955), and "Buruuba" (1956) a Japanese film set in Africa. He appeared once on Johnny Weissmuller's 1955–1956 syndicated television series "Jungle Jim" and was in an episode of "Private Secretary". Cecil B. DeMille cast him in "The Ten Commandments" (1956) as a slave at $500 a week for five weeks.
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Yul Brynner Yul Brynner (born Yuliy Borisovich Briner, ; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born film and stage actor. Brynner was best known for his portrayal of King Mongkut of Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The King and I", for which he won two Tony Awards and an Academy Award for the film version. He played the role 4,625 times on stage. He also starred as Ramesses II in the Cecil B. DeMille epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956), and played General Bounine in the film "Anastasia" (also 1956), the gunman Chris Adams in "The
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of her most memorable roles is that of Miriam, the sister of Moses (portrayed by Theodore Roberts), in the biblical prologue of Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" (1923), one of the most successful films of the silent era. Her performance in the DeMille film was considered a great acting achievement. Taylor's younger sister, Helen, was hired by Sid Grauman to play Miriam in the Egyptian Theatre's onstage prologue to the film. Despite being ill with arthritis, she won the supporting role of Mary, Queen of Scots in "Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall" (1924), starring Mary Pickford. "I've since wondered
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the Paramount film "Spawn of the North". Griggs' other Paramount films as cinematographer included the 1954 musical "White Christmas", the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille epic "The Ten Commandments", and the Jerry Lewis comedies "The Sad Sack" (1957) and "Visit to a Small Planet" (1960). He was also the cinematographer on George Stevens' 1965 United Artists release "The Greatest Story Ever Told" as well as Otto Preminger's World War II drama of that same year, "In Harm's Way". His final film was the 1971 American International Pictures comedy "Bunny O'Hare" starring Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine. Loyal Griggs Loyal Griggs, A.S.C.
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Jack Gariss Jack Gariss (; October 19, 1920 – January 19, 1985) was an American spiritual teacher and meditation instructor, and a radio personality on KPFK in Los Angeles from the 1960s until his death in Los Angeles in 1985. He was born in Nebraska. As a young man, in the 1950s, Jack Gariss attended University of Southern California and worked for Cecil B. DeMille. Most notably, he has a co-writing credit on DeMille's "The Ten Commandments". In the late 1960s, Gariss began teaching meditation and started recording radio shows for KPFK about meditation and spiritual topics. Over the years,
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Arnold Friberg Arnold Friberg (December 21, 1913 – July 1, 2010) was an American illustrator and painter noted for his religious and patriotic works. He is perhaps best known for his 1975 painting "The Prayer at Valley Forge", a depiction of George Washington praying at Valley Forge. He is also well known for his 15 "pre-visualization" paintings for the Cecil B. DeMille film "The Ten Commandments" which were used to promote the film worldwide and for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He has been admitted as a lifetime member of the Royal Society of Arts. He also did
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Albert Nozaki Albert Nozaki (1 January 1912 – 16 November 2003) was a Japanese American art director who worked on various films for Paramount Pictures. He is perhaps best known for his memorable design of the Martian war machines from the 1953 film "The War of the Worlds" and for his Academy Award-nominated art direction on the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille epic, "The Ten Commandments". He retired in 1969 due to retinitis pigmentosa, which ultimately cost him his sight. Starting out at Paramount as a draftsman in the Paramount set-design department in 1934, he retired in 1969 as the studio's
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time in southern Germany and the Austrian city of Bregenz. With a dense series of murders and attempted murders, Pommerenke struck fear and terror in the Black Forest area. He showed a certain affinity to trains, stations and railway embankments, but without a single modus operandi, his actions could not be assigned to him until his arrest. Pommerenke lived in Hornberg at the time. According to Pommerenke's later confessions, his murderous spree was triggered when he a film screening of "The Ten Commandments" by Cecil B. DeMille in a movie theater in Karlsruhe. After the presenation of the golden calf
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the Fritz Lang whodunit "The Blue Gardenia", in which she played a woman accused of murder. In June 1954, Baxter won the coveted part of the Egyptian princess and queen, Nefertari, one of her more memorable roles, in Cecil B. DeMille's award-winning "The Ten Commandments". Her scenes were shot on Paramount's sound stages in 1955, and she attended the film's New York and Los Angeles premieres in November 1956. Despite criticisms of her interpretation of Nefertari, DeMille and "The Hollywood Reporter" both thought her performance was "very good," and "The New York Daily News" described her as "remarkably effective." She
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the source material". David Bianculli of the "New York Daily News" reviewed it as "Thou shalt not watch." while Matt Roush of "TV Guide" wrote the film "violates the primary commandment of epic filmmaking, biblical or otherwise: Thou shalt not bore." Matthew Gilbert of the "Boston Globe" called it "an empty inane remake." and "The Washington Post"'s Tom Shales calls it a "dreadful, doleful remake of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 classic "The Ten Commandments"." The Ten Commandments (miniseries) The Ten Commandments is a 2006 miniseries that dramatizes the biblical story of Moses. It ran on the ABC TV network. The
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to writing and directing stage productions, some with Jesse Lasky, who was then a vaudeville producer. DeMille's first film, "The Squaw Man" (1914), was also the first feature film shot in Hollywood. Its interracial love story made it a phenomenal hit and it "put Hollywood on the map". The continued success of his productions led to the founding of Paramount Pictures with Lasky and Adolph Zukor. His first biblical epic, "The Ten Commandments" (1923), was both a critical and financial success; it held the Paramount revenue record for twenty-five years. In 1927, he directed "The King of Kings", a biography
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opposite result (also with a 5 to 4 decision). The "swing vote" in both cases was Breyer. The monument challenged was 6-feet high and 3-feet wide, and placed in 1961. It was donated to the State of Texas by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, a civic organization, with the support of Cecil B. DeMille, who had directed the film "The Ten Commandments". The State accepted the monument and selected a site for it based on the recommendation of the state agency responsible for maintaining the Capitol grounds. The donating organization paid for its erection. Two state legislators presided over the
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years at Los Angeles High School, UCLA and Stanford Law School. Hahn also worked with Cecil B. DeMille on several films, including "This Day and Age" (1933), where he played the part of the student body president (at the time, Hahn was senior class president at Los Angeles High School). In his book "Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood", author Robert S. Birchard relates how DeMille wasn't sure screenwriter Bartlett Cormack's script had a sense of current slang, so he asked high school student Hahn to read the script and comment. Today we often laugh at the "Gee, that's swell" dialogue of
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They arrive in the New World after this voyage, but the quarrel within the family continues. After Lehi dies in the promised land, Laman and Lemuel, and their families, rebel again, and turn to evil things. Because of this, Nephi and his allies have to escape them, and once more go into the wilderness. Rogers's inspiration was the Cecil B. DeMille 1956 version of "The Ten Commandments". He envisioned "The Book of Mormon" as one long historical epic. His plan was to make nine films that cover the entire story of the book. The film's length is two hours, and
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a party member, and his blacklisting contributed to the heart attack that killed him at the age of 39. Edward G. Robinson, a well-known long-time New Deal liberal who had been friends with Franklin D. Roosevelt, was "gray listed" (never officially blacklisted, but not hired by film producers), and made his living as a stage actor during the period of McCarthyism until director Cecil B. DeMille, a noted and vociferous anti-communist, hired him for his 1956 remake of "The Ten Commandments". Also "gray listed" were committee members Henry Fonda and Melvyn Douglas. Like Garfield, Sterling Hayden was subpoenaed by HUAC
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to start, the studio announced that the television series had been canceled in favor of a new feature film. Cast and crew who had been hired that Monday were laid off by Friday, and construction came to a halt. Production was moved to April 1978 so that the necessary scripts, sets, and wardrobe could be upgraded. On March 28, 1978, Paramount assembled the largest press conference held at the studio since Cecil B. DeMille announced he was making "The Ten Commandments". Eisner announced that Academy Award-winning director Robert Wise would direct a film adaptation of the television series titled "Star
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as a stand-up comic throughout Israel, entertaining troops in periods of cease fire during the War of Independence. Zev served from 1947-1950, and returned for the Six Day War as well as the Yom Kippur War. He came to the United States as a foreign exchange student in 1951, moved to Hollywood, California, and worked as an actor while attending college. His first role was playing an Arab guard in the film "Flight to Tangier". His most memorable film work was a role in the Cecil B. DeMille classic "The Ten Commandments". By 1960, he had produced his first Hollywood
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the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Sophie MacDonald in "The Razor's Edge" (1946). In 1951, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the title role in "All About Eve" (1950). She worked with several of Hollywood's greatest directors, including Alfred Hitchcock in "I Confess" (1953), Fritz Lang in "The Blue Gardenia" (1953), and Cecil B. DeMille in "The Ten Commandments" (1956). Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana, to Catherine Dorothy (née Wright; 1894–1979)—whose father was the famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright—and Kenneth Stuart Baxter (1893–1977), an executive with the Seagrams Distillery
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Fraser Clarke Heston Fraser Clarke Heston (born February 12, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor. He is the son of actors Charlton Heston and Lydia Clarke, and has one sibling, a sister, Holly Rochell Heston. Fraser Clarke Heston's filmography includes "Alaska" and the 1990 version of "Treasure Island" which cast his father as Long John Silver. As a baby, he made his film debut as the infant Moses (his father played the grown Moses) in the Cecil B. DeMille epic "The Ten Commandments". While in the process of writing "Wind River",
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estimated crowd of 500,000 persons, the largest in the parade's history. Boyd would eventually start a production company of his own, U.S. Television Office, to handle the legacy of Hopalong Cassidy. This company continues to hold full rights to the Cassidy name, trademark, films, and television material. Boyd had a cameo role as himself in Cecil B. DeMille's 1952 circus epic, "The Greatest Show on Earth". DeMille reportedly asked Boyd to take the role of Moses in his remake of "The Ten Commandments", but Boyd felt his identification with the Cassidy character would make it impossible for audiences to accept
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violated the concept of separation of church and state. The monument had originally been erected in 1964 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles in connection to Cecil B. DeMille, director of the famous 1956 film adaptation of The Ten Commandments. While the effort to remove the monument did not succeed, the controversy surrounding its inclusion on a government operated location continues. The memorial to commemorate the September 11, 2001, attacks was unveiled on the fifth anniversary of the attacks, September 11, 2006. Almost immediately, criticism that the memorial contained anti-American sentiment began to surface. Some of the descriptions have also
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as a professional writer. Lasky wrote eight novels, five plays, three books of poetry and more than 50 screenplays, including eight for director Cecil B. DeMille. In addition to a Christopher Award, he was a two-time winner of the "Boxoffice" Magazine Award: in 1949 for "Samson and Delilah", and in 1956 for "The Ten Commandments". Lasky's writing career took him from Hollywood to London, Rome, Austria, Denmark, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Greece and France. David Hempstead cowritted the script for "Hell and High Water" (1954) alongside Lasky. During World War II, Lasky served as a Captain in the Combat Photographic Units
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Best Color Cinematography (Loyal Griggs), Best Color Costume Design (Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins, and Arnold Friberg), Best Film Editing (Anne Bauchens), Best Motion Picture (Cecil B. DeMille) and Best Sound Recording (Paramount Studio Sound Department and sound director Loren L. Ryder). Paramount submitted the names of Yvonne De Carlo, John Derek, and Debra Paget for the supporting player categories (even though they received star billing in the film) at the 29th Academy Awards, but the actors did not receive nominations. Charlton Heston's performance as Moses was ranked as the 4th Best Performance by a Male Star
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Kathy Garver Kathleen Marie Garver (born December 13, 1945) is an American stage, film, television, and voice-over actress most remembered for having portrayed the teenage niece, Catherine "Cissy" Davis, to series character Uncle Bill Davis, played by Brian Keith, on the popular 1960s CBS sitcom, "Family Affair". Before that, she was cast by Cecil B DeMille in the film "The Ten Commandments" (1956). She is also known as the voice of Firestar in the animated television series "Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends". Garver authored "The Family Affair Cookbook" (2009), "Surviving Cissy: My Family Affair of Life in Hollywood" (2015), and
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reached its peak when eminent producer-director Cecil B. DeMille cast her as Moses' Midianite wife, Sephora, her most prominent role, in his biblical epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956), which was immensely successful at the box office and remains an annual tradition on television. Her success continued with starring roles in "Flame of the Islands" (1956), "Death of a Scoundrel" (1956), "Band of Angels" (1957), and "The Sword and the Cross" (1958), in which she portrayed Mary Magdalene. She also accepted supporting roles in "McLintock!" (1963) and "A Global Affair" (1964). She gained a new generation of fans as a star
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"The Wrap" also gave a negative review and said, "If you're going into "Exodus: Gods and Kings" thinking that director Ridley Scott is going to give the Moses story anything we didn't already get from Cecil B. DeMille in two versions of "The Ten Commandments", prepare to be disappointed." Exodus: Gods and Kings Exodus: Gods and Kings is a 2014 epic biblical adventure drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott. An international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain, it was produced by Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Michael Schaefer, and Mark Huffam with music by Alberto
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he won awards at the Philadelphia Water Color Club, American Water Color Society (New York), and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1923 he was hired by Cecil B. DeMille to design the sets for the Biblical epic, "The Ten Commandments". Criticism of his Cubist-inspired submissions to a San Francisco exhibition may have led to his departure from the Bay Area art scene. By the mid-1920s McComas almost abandoned painting to consort with the idle wealthy of the Monterey Peninsula. In the early-to-mid 1930s he reemerged as a serious artist with several exhibitions of new works, some of which were
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not play a supporting role. He went on to be in "Night Has a Thousand Eyes" (1948), and "House of Strangers" (1949). Robinson found it hard to get work after his blacklisting. He was in low budgeted films: "Actors and Sin" (1952), "Vice Squad" (1953), "Big Leaguer" (1953), "The Glass Web" (1953), "Black Tuesday" (1954), "The Violent Men" (1955), "Tight Spot" (1955), "A Bullet for Joey" (1955), "Illegal" (1955), and "Hell on Frisco Bay" (1955). His career rehabilitation received a boost in 1954, when noted anti-communist director Cecil B. DeMille cast him as the traitorous Dathan in "The Ten Commandments".
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man fighting the forces of nature. He went on to receive his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for his circus drama "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952), which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. His last and most famous film, "The Ten Commandments" (1956), also a Best Picture Academy Award nominee, is currently the seventh-highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation. In addition to his Best Picture Award, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his film contributions, the Palme d'Or (posthumously)
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for famous Peruvian artist Alberto Vargas, who painted her embracing a bust of a satyr. In Vargas’s original “pin-up” painting, Naldi is depicted topless, although copies of the portrait that were published and widely distributed in the 1920s, such as in the art and entertainment magazine "Shadowland", were “modified” by the addition of clothing to cover her partially visible left breast. While Valentino went on his one-man strike, which prevented him from appearing on film, Naldi took on several Famous Players-Lasky roles with growing importance including "The Ten Commandments" (1923), directed by Cecil B. DeMille. When Valentino returned and fixed
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film "The Ten Commandments," by Cecil B. DeMille; and the musical "London Calling!," by Noel Coward. Very few sound recordings are in the public domain in the United States. Sound recordings fixed in a tangible form before February 15, 1972, have been generally covered by common law or in some cases by anti-piracy statutes enacted in certain states, not by federal copyright law, and the anti-piracy statutes typically have no duration limit. The 1971 Sound Recordings Act, effective 1972, and the 1976 Copyright Act, effective 1978, provide federal copyright for unpublished and published sound recordings fixed on or after February
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Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award The Cecil B. DeMille Award is an honorary Golden Globe Award bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment". The HFPA board of directors selects the honorees from a variety of actors, directors, writers and producers who have made a significant mark in the film industry. It was first presented at the 9th Golden Globe Awards ceremony in February 1952 and is named in honor of its first recipient, director Cecil B. DeMille. The HFPA chose DeMille due to his prestige in the industry and his
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39 in 1962. Garland was also the first female honoree. The oldest honoree was producer Samuel Goldwyn, at age 93 in 1973. In 1982, Sidney Poitier became the first African-American recipient. In 2018, Oprah Winfrey became the first African-American woman to receive the honor. , 65 honorees have received the Cecil B. DeMille Award, 14 women and 51 men. Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award The Cecil B. DeMille Award is an honorary Golden Globe Award bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment". The HFPA board of directors selects the honorees
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demolished in 2007 to make way for a new high school; and Cecil B. DeMille Elementary School in Midway City, California. The former film building at Chapman University in Orange, California is named in honor of DeMille. The Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts now resides in Marion Knotts Studios. The Golden Globe's annual Cecil B. DeMille Award recognizes lifetime achievement in the film industry. The moving image collection of Cecil B. DeMille is held at the Academy Film Archive and includes home movies, outtakes, and never-before-seen test footage. During the Apollo 11 mission, Buzz Aldrin
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feature in America, but rather than being filmed in Hollywood it was actually filmed in Jacksonville Florida. Today "The Gulf Between" is lost. In 1922, Technicolor made their second feature and also the first movie made in their second color process, called process 2. The movie was "The Toll of the Sea". It was the first color feature made in Hollywood. The movie starred Anna May Wong. Wong never thought the movie would ever make it to the screen, but it did. In 1923, Paramount Pictures made the Cecil B. De Mille partial Technicolor epic "The Ten Commandments", which would
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cameraman for 17 films for William S. Hart. He also later worked with the Constance Talmage Company, and at large production companies like Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal, and he went to Paramount in 1925. Later Milner became known for the epic look he lent to Cecil B. DeMille film productions. He worked with DeMille for ten years, and helped him direct movies in Technicolor. Milner also worked with other icons in the film industry including Victor Fleming, Raoul Walsh, Preston Sturges, and Ernst Lubitsch. Milner was captured for three days by Russians with his son, Victor Milner Jr. in 1949. The two
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until it was rediscovered in 1970 among the silent films stored in the Paramount Pictures Vault and later donated to the Library of Congress where it is now preserved. The Captive (1915 film) The Captive is an American silent-era film released on April 22, 1915. It was released on five reels. The film was written, directed, edited, and produced by Cecil B. DeMille. Jesse L. Lasky was another producer and Jeanie MacPherson worked with DeMille to write the screenplay. The film is based on a play written by Cecil B. DeMille and Jeanie MacPherson. "The Captive" grossed just over $56,000.
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Carmen (1915 Cecil B. DeMille film) Carmen is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film is based on the novella "Carmen" by Prosper Mérimée. The existing versions of this film appear to be from the re-edited 1918 re-release. Don José, an officer of the law, is seduced by the gypsy girl Carmen, in order to facilitate her clan's smuggling endeavors. Don José becomes obsessed, turning to violent crime himself in order to keep her attention. DeMille had intended to film a musical version of George Bizet's opera "Carmen", but its libretto was under copyright
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reunited. The Devil-Stone The Devil-Stone is a 1917 American silent romance film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and co-written by his mother Beatrice deMille and his sometime lover Jeanie MacPherson and starring Geraldine Farrar. The film had sequences filmed in the Handschiegl Color Process (billed as the "DeMille-Wyckoff Process"). Only two of six reels are known to survive, in the American Film Institute Collection at the Library of Congress. This was the last of Farrar's films for Paramount Pictures. As described in a film magazine, Silas Martin (Marshall), a miser, marries Marcia Manot (Farrar) in order to gain possession of
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The Devil-Stone The Devil-Stone is a 1917 American silent romance film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and co-written by his mother Beatrice deMille and his sometime lover Jeanie MacPherson and starring Geraldine Farrar. The film had sequences filmed in the Handschiegl Color Process (billed as the "DeMille-Wyckoff Process"). Only two of six reels are known to survive, in the American Film Institute Collection at the Library of Congress. This was the last of Farrar's films for Paramount Pictures. As described in a film magazine, Silas Martin (Marshall), a miser, marries Marcia Manot (Farrar) in order to gain possession of a
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Cecil B. DeMille Cecil Blount DeMille (; August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker. Between 1914 and 1958, he made a total of 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the cinema of the United States and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. He made silent films of every genre: social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants. DeMille began his career as a stage actor in 1900. He later moved
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to her son Cecil B. DeMille. They ventured into motion pictures in 1913. Lasky's sister, Blanche, married Samuel Goldwyn and in 1913 Lasky and Goldwyn teamed with Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel to form the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. With limited funds, they rented a barn near Los Angeles where they made Hollywood's first feature film, DeMille's "The Squaw Man". Known today as the Lasky-DeMille Barn, it is home to the Hollywood Heritage Museum. In 1916, their company merged with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company, to create the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. In 1920, Famous Players-Lasky built
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DeMille died of a heart ailment. DeMille's funeral was held on January 23 at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. He was entombed at the Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now known as Hollywood Forever). DeMille received hundreds of awards, commendations, and honors in his lifetime. For his contribution to the motion picture and radio industry, DeMille has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The first, for radio contributions, is located at 6240 Hollywood Blvd. The second star is located at 1725 Vine Street. Two schools have been named after him: Cecil B. DeMille Middle School, in Long Beach, California, closed and
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and the lovebirds and Milo walk off to begin a new life together. The director, Cecil B. DeMille, and producer, Jesse L. Lasky, are both associated with Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, dubbed “the world’s greatest motion picture enterprise, … [for] it is the organization which has "made" the motion picture”, its membership included President Adolph Zukor, First Vice President Jesse L. Lasky, Director-General Cecil B. DeMille, Vice Presidents Frank A. Garbott and Walter E. Greene, Treasurer Arthur S. Friend, and Secretary Elek J. Ludvigh. Together, they churned out 731 feature films, and 363 single-reel shorts in conjunction with Paramount. They did
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Mille's choreography are parts one and two of "Rodeo" by the American Ballet Theater, "Fall River Legend" (filmed in 1989 by the Dance Theatre of Harlem) and "Oklahoma!" Notes Further reading Agnes de Mille Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer. Agnes de Mille was born in New York City into a well-connected family of theater professionals. Her father William C. deMille and her uncle Cecil B. DeMille were both Hollywood directors. Her mother, Anna Angela George, was the daughter of Henry George, the economist. On her father's side, Agnes
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the film a rating of 94% "Certified fresh" approval rating, with an average rating of 7.5/10 and the site's consensus stating: "Bombastic and occasionally silly but extravagantly entertaining, Cecil B. DeMille's all-star spectacular is a muscular retelling of the great Bible story." Camille Paglia has called "The Ten Commandments" one of the ten greatest films of all time. "The Ten Commandments" won the Academy Award for Best Special Effects (John P. Fulton). It was also nominated for Best Color Art Direction (art directors Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, and Albert Nozaki and set decorators Samuel M. Comer and Ray Moyer),
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Larry and Alex are elsewhere in the castle, among the bodies in the glass cases, one of the bodies is identified as the same Don Santiago, "the gentleman we met in the hall". The ghost is therefore the owner of two skeletons. Uncredited (in order of appearance) The Dickey and Goddard play "The Ghost Breaker" was filmed twice previously by Paramount, first in 1914 by Cecil B. DeMille, with stars H. B. Warner and Rita Stanwood. It was filmed again in 1922 by director Alfred E. Green, starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee. Both these silent film versions are now
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jodhpurs. From 1936 to 1944, DeMille hosted "Lux Radio Theater", a weekly digest of current feature films. DeMille was respected by his peers, yet his individual films were sometimes criticized. "Directorially, I think his pictures were the most horrible things I've ever seen in my life", said director William Wellman. "But he put on pictures that made a fortune. In that respect, he was better than any of us." Producer David O. Selznick wrote: "There has appeared only one Cecil B. DeMille. He is one of the most extraordinarily able showmen of modern times. However much I may dislike some
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to January 1906. She appeared in only one film, playing the part of 'Mrs. Rowland' in "Where the Trail Divides"(1914). In 1920 while still associated with Famous Players-Lasky, her husband formed his own new company Cecil B. DeMille Productions with his lawyer, Constance and his sister in law Ella King Adams who also worked as his script reader. While performing, she met and later married Cecil Blount DeMille. Their wedding took place at noon, on August 16, 1902, at her parents home 77 Washington Street, East Orange, New Jersey. The bride's sister Rebecca Appleton Adams was her Maid of Honor.
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became friends with John Barrymore, and began working for Cecil B. DeMille as a set designer. Carradine, however, did not have the job long. "DeMille noticed the lack of Roman columns in my sketches," Carradine said. "I lasted two weeks." Once DeMille heard his baritone voice, however, he hired him to do voice-overs. Carradine said, "...the great Cecil B. DeMille saw an apparition – me – pass him by, reciting the gravedigger's lines from 'Hamlet', and he instructed me to report to him the following day." He became a member of DeMille's stock company and his voice was heard in
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films in Germany, before relocating to the United States where he directed two dramatic films: 1927's "Fighting Love", starring Jetta Goudal, Victor Varconi and Henry B. Walthall for Cecil B. DeMille Pictures, and that same year, "The Heart Thief", starring Joseph Schildkraut and Lya De Putti. By 1930, he was living at S. Gramercy Place in Los Angeles, California. He died in 1947. Nils Olaf Chrisander Nils Olaf Chrisander (14 February 1884 – 5 June 1947) was a Swedish actor and film director in the early part of the twentieth century. Born Waldemar Olaf Chrisander in Stockholm, Sweden, Chrisander's first
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scene an eerie yet spectacular appearance. The parting of the Red Sea sequence is considered by many to be one of the greatest special effects of all time. DeMille was reluctant to discuss technical details of how the film was made, especially the optical tricks used in the parting of the Red Sea. It was eventually revealed that footage of the Red Sea was spliced with film footage (run in reverse) of water pouring from large U-shaped trip-tanks set up in the studio backlot. The score for "The Ten Commandments" was composed and conducted by Elmer Bernstein. Initially, DeMille hired
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Reap the Wild Wind Reap the Wild Wind is a 1942 adventure film starring Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, and Susan Hayward, and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, his second picture to be filmed in color. It is based on a serialized story written by Thelma Strabel in 1940 for "The Saturday Evening Post". The movie, released shortly after the United States' entry into World War II, was a swashbuckling adventure set in the 1840s along the Florida coast, and was wildly successful. While he based his film on Strabel's story, DeMille took liberties with details such
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Reap the Wild Wind Reap the Wild Wind is a 1942 adventure film starring Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, and Susan Hayward, and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, his second picture to be filmed in color. It is based on a serialized story written by Thelma Strabel in 1940 for "The Saturday Evening Post". The movie, released shortly after the United States' entry into World War II, was a swashbuckling adventure set in the 1840s along the Florida coast, and was wildly successful. While he based his film on Strabel's story, DeMille took liberties with details such
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Michigan; the first line of his suggestion read: "You cannot break the Ten Commandments—they will break you." Production on the film started on May 21, 1923 and ended on August 16, 1923. Jeanie MacPherson, the film's screenwriter, first thought to "interpret the Commandments in episodic form". Both she and DeMille eventually decided on an unusual two-part screenplay: a biblical prologue and a modern story demonstrating the consequences of breaking the Ten Commandments. In a treatment for the film, MacPherson described the four main characters of the modern story: There are four people in the modern story of "The Ten Commandments",
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English. Mass in Latin is offered monthly as well. Saints Peter and Paul serves the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The church is prominently featured in the Clint Eastwood movies "Dirty Harry" (the Church, and nearby Dante Building, are the scene of sniper attacks by the "Scorpio Killer") and "The Dead Pool". Scenes from Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 version of "The Ten Commandments" were filmed at the church while it was under construction. Also featured in "What's Up, Doc?" in which Judy Maxwell, portrayed by Barbra Streisand and Dr. Howard Bannister, portrayed by Ryan O'Neal borrowed a Volkswagen Beetle during a
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in the Sky" in which he was a crewman on one of the search-and-rescue planes. In 1956, still billed as Touch Connors, he played an Amalekite herder in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments". He appeared in numerous television series, including the co-starring role in the 1955 episode "Tomas and the Widow" of the anthology series "Frontier". He guest-starred on the early sitcoms, "Hey, Jeannie!" and "The People's Choice". He guest-starred in two Rod Cameron syndicated crime dramas, "City Detective" and the Western-themed "State Trooper", and played the villain in the first episode filmed (but second one aired) of ABC's
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who designed Moses' costume. As a gift, after the production, DeMille gave Moses' robe to Friberg, who had it in his possession until his death in 2010. Moses' robe as worn by Charlton Heston was hand-woven by Dorothea Hulse, one of the world's finest weavers. She also created costumes for "The Robe", as well as textiles and costume fabrics for "Samson and Delilah", "David and Bathsheba", and others. Jesse Lasky Jr., a co-writer on "The Ten Commandments", described how DeMille would customarily spread out prints of paintings by Lawrence Alma-Tadema to inform his set designers on the look he wanted
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this region as a setting for several films, including Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 Ten Commandments and in 1998 "The Odd Couple II". Scenes from "" and "Hidalgo" have also been filmed here. The Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center serves as the education and research facility for the natural area. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , 99.60% of it land and 0.40% of it water. The town consists of a tight cluster of buildings, surrounded completely by agricultural land. This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures
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of the joining of the UP and CPRR rails and driving of the Last Spike at Promontory Summit, UT, in 1869. The center piece event of the celebration occurred on April 28 with the World Premiere of the Cecil B. DeMille feature motion picture "Union Pacific" which took place simultaneously in the city's Omaha, Orpheum, and Paramount theaters. The film features an elaborate reenactment of the original Golden Spike ceremony (filmed in Canoga Park, CA) as the motion picture's closing scene for which DeMille borrowed the actual Golden Spike from Stanford University to be held by Dr. W.H. Harkness (Stanley
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