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Cecil's brother, William, and his daughters, Margaret and Agnes, as well as DeMille's granddaughter, Cecilia de Mille Presley, also used the de Mille spelling. [ 5 ] DeMille was born on August 12, 1881, in a boarding house on Main Street in Ashfield, Massachusetts , where his parents had been vacationing for the summer. [ 6 ]
The Crusades is a 1935 American historical adventure drama film directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille for Paramount Pictures, loosely based on the life of King Richard I of England during the Third Crusade, and his marriage to Berengaria of Navarre.
A contemporary review by Bosley Crowther in The New York Times described the film as "blood, sweat and tears built up to spectacle in the familiar De Mille "epic" style," and "a fiction which is as garish as the spires of Hollywood. [De Mille] has telescoped fact with wildest fancy in the most flamboyantly melodramatic way.
Unconquered is a 1947 American historical epic adventure film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard.The supporting cast features Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway, Ward Bond, Howard da Silva, Katherine DeMille (the director's daughter), C. Aubrey Smith and Mike Mazurki.
Then there's the reel Red Sea, and the lamb's blood of the Passover. De Mille presented a fantasy, dream-like quality on film that was so real, if you saw his movies as a child, they stuck with you for life. [141] Metallica were inspired to write their tenth plague of Egypt inspired smash hit "Creeping Death" after watching the second half of ...
The Ten Commandments is a 1923 American silent religious epic film 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.
The 2025 Grammy Awards are here, people! And this year, the list of A-list attendees is fully stacked, meaning the red carpet is obviously full of head-turning looks. While the night's most highly ...
William Churchill deMille (July 25, 1878 – March 5, 1955), also spelled de Mille or De Mille, was an American screenwriter and film director from the silent film era through the early 1930s. [1] He was also a noted playwright prior to moving into film. Once he was established in film he specialized in adapting Broadway plays into silent films ...