Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American movie director. He was an Academy Award-winning producer of both silent and sound movies. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies. His first movies were The Squaw Man (1914) and Joan the Woman. Among his best-known films are Cleopatra, Samson and Delilah; The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture; and The Ten Commandments, which was his last and most successful movie.
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 DeMille in c. 1920 | |
| Born | Cecil Blount DeMille August 12, 1881 |
| Died | January 21, 1959 (aged 77) |
| Cause of death | Heart failure |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Producer, director, editor, screenwriter, actor |
| Years active | 1913–1959 |
| Spouse(s) | Constance Adams (1902–1959) |
| Partner(s) | Jeanie MacPherson Julia Faye |
| Parent(s) | Henry Churchill DeMille Beatrice Samuel |
Personal life and death
DeMille married Constance Adams on August 16, 1902 and had one child, Cecilia. The couple adopted Katherine Lester in the early 1920s. She married Anthony Quinn. They also adopted two sons, John and Richard. DeMille suffered a near fatal heart attack in 1956 during the shooting in Egypt of The Ten Commandments. He never fully recovered. He died on January 21, 1959 of heart failure. He rests in Hollywood Forever Cemetery). At the time of his death, he was planning to direct a movie about space travel. He also wanted to do a movie about the Biblical Book of Revelation.[1]
Cecil B. DeMille Media
The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York
DeMille as a young man, c. 1904
The Squaw Man (1914) full film
Advertisement, Moving Picture World, May 1919 for the film For Better, for Worse (1919).
DeMille as producer of the Lux Radio Theatre, broadcast on CBS, 1937
DeMille in the trailer for The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), the film for which he won the Academy Award for Best Picture
Cecil B. DeMille bookplate from his library
DeMille's set pieces include this pagan temple in Samson and Delilah (1949)
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References
- ↑ Eyman 2010, pp. 494–496, 500.
Other websites
- Cecil B. DeMille on IMDb
- Bibliography of books and articles about Demille via UC Berkeley Media Resources Center
- Cecil B. DeMille at the TCM Movie Database
- Cecil B. DeMille at the Internet Broadway Database
- Works by or about Cecil B. DeMille in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Obituary, NY Times, January 22, 1959, Cecil De Mille, 77, Pioneer of Movies, Dead in Hollywood
- Costs and Grosses for the Early Films of Cecil B. DeMille essay with detailed financial breakdowns by David Pierce Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Official Cecil B. DeMille Site
- DeMille Studio Museum also known as the Lasky-DeMille Barn, run by Hollywood Heritage.
- DeMille celebrates his last birthday with Mary Pickford and Bob Hope and cake & sword 1958
- Bibliography
- DeMille page at Corbis
- Newsweek, Sept. 2010, How Cecil B. DeMille Created Modern Hollywood
- Cecil B. DeMille's birth record Archived 2012-01-18 at the Wayback Machine
- DeMille, 1900 Census Archived 2012-01-19 at the Wayback Machine
- 1910 Census Archived 2012-01-19 at the Wayback Machine, 1920 Census Archived 2012-01-18 at the Wayback Machine
- 1930 Census Archived 2012-01-18 at the Wayback Machine
- 1942 World War II Draft Registrations Archived 2012-01-18 at the Wayback Machine.
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