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	<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		<b>Cecilb> B. Demille died of heart failure in 1959 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
		<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille had a keen eye for talent and was known for being an instrumental catalyst for the rising status of many a previously young, struggling, or unknown actor.
		From 1936 to 1944, DeMille hosted and even acted as pitchman for <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theater, which was one of the most popular dramatic radio shows at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cecil_B._DeMille (705 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille
		<b>Cecilb> B. Demille died in 1959 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
		<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille had a keen eye for talent and was known for being an instumental catalyst for the rising status of many a previously young, struggling, or unknown actor.
		From 1936 to 1944, DeMille hosted and even acted as pitchman for <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theater, which was one of the most popular dramatic radio shows at the time.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Cecil_B._DeMille (631 words)

	<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille's Biography
		<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille was planning a film on space exploration at the time of his death on January 21, 1959.
		<b>Cecilb>'s father taught at Columbia University and was a lay minister in the Episcopal Church.
		DeMille disagreed with the Union's stance, and refused to be levied a fee for a cause he did not support.
	www.cecilbdemille.com /bio.html (1558 words)

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		<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille (1881-1959), American motion-picture director and producer, a consummate showman known for his spectacular historical epics and biblical film extravaganzas.
		DeMille both directed and produced all of his 70 films, and in the course of his career he worked in nearly every conceivable genre.
		In 1925 DeMille left Paramount to form the Cinema Corporation of America, but this was a short-lived alliance, and in 1928 he took his staff to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), where he made three early sound films that were not successful.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761553471__1/Cecil_B_Demille.html (575 words)

	<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille
		DeMille was born <b>Cecilb> Blount DeMille on Aug. 12, 1881, in Ashfield, MA.
		In 1950, DeMille was awarded an honorary Academy Award, "for 37 years of brilliant showmanship," and he won the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1953.
		DeMille urged the group to consider switching from the short, two-reel films that were popular at the time, to a full-length, six-reel feature.
	www.cemeteryguide.com /demille.html (429 words)

	<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille Vs. The Critics
		Early in his career <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille's films were highly regarded, while his later work was often met with critical derision, but the fact remains that no other director was a major force in the film world over such an extended period of time.
		Like D. Griffith, <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille was one of the creators of the art of motion picture story-telling.
		DeMille often suggested that it was essential to show the wages of sin in order to demonstrate that virtue is its own reward, but it would be a mistake to say that he was a moral absolutist.
	www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf/10_rsb_2.htm (3046 words)

	<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille: An American Epic
		DeMille also had an incredible ability to choose unknown actors for their talent and was responsible for the launching the careers of Gloria Swanson, Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, and Charlton Heston.
		DeMille was a born showman and had the uncanny knack of knowing what the public wanted to see.
		DeMille was also famous in radio and became a household name by directing and hosting "Lux Radio Theatre" between 1936-1945.
	www.ammi.org /film_programs/program_notes/c/cecil_b_demille_an_american_epic.html (505 words)

	DeMille
		<b>Cecilb>'s brother, William DeMille, is responsible for recognizing the burgeoning talent of a young Dorothy Arzner, who began typing scripts for William, before moving into editing and then directing, as well as the writer and eventual studio owner, Marion Fairfax.
		DeMille's professional association with women...was compromised by his tendency to convert his female staff into a peculiar version of a harem.
		DeMille and Miss Beranger hesitated to take steps that would prove injurious to their families or that would shadow their love for each other...
	www.reelwomen.com /demille.html (516 words)

	The Biography Channel - <b>Cecilb> B DeMille Biography
		DeMille's point of view was, "Not what does it cost, but what is it worth." He was convinced that an actress playing a princess would perform better on a $5,000 saddle than a $200 saddle, and that the audience would see the difference in both saddle and performance.
		C.B. DeMille was the first to turn the director's name into a sales tool, putting his highest on the marquee, outranking both the studio name and the picture's title.
		DeMille believed that you needed to convey the effect of it before you could show the redemptive values of salvation.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/1376:0/Cecil_B_DeMille.htm (394 words)

	OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
		DeMille is seen in the film kindly receiving the far-past-her-prime Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) at the studio and letting her keep the illusion that her surrender to the police is really her big moment on camera.
		We learn who DeMille's all-time favorite actress was (Barbara Stanwyck), what the job requirements were for his "chair boy" (the unfortunate soul who had to perform a multitude of tasks in addition to having a chair at the ready whenever DeMille wanted to sit down) and how DeMille negotiated the minefield of Hollywood censorship.
		Such behavior led one DeMille family member to quip that the director "had all the patience God gave him, because he never used any of it." But he was anything but an unyielding martinet.
	www.opinionjournal.com /la?id=110005350 (822 words)

	JS Online: Christ film begat controversy
		DeMille's response to the protests was to append an introductory title on the picture asserting that the Jews of the time were the prisoners of Rome, and were not self-governing - thereby implying that the Passion wasn't their fault.
		In fact, the response to DeMille's picture and Mel Gibson's picture are remarkably similar, allowing for the fact that DeMille was not the sort of man to quietly transpose Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
		DeMille assigned all of his profits from the film to a corporation that agreed to keep the film in permanent circulation.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/movies/feb04/209629.asp (599 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille
		<b>Cecilb> Blount DeMille was born in Ashfield&; on August 12, 1881.
		Director <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille epitomized the film epic and Hollywood's "Golden Age." From the 1910s through the 1950s, he was able to anticipate public taste and gauge America's changing moods.
		DeMille's popularity can largely be attributed to his dexterity with these seemingly contradictory positions and their appeal to audiences.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200299 (673 words)

	<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille
		DeMille was born <b>Cecilb> Blount DeMille on Aug. 12, 1881, in Ashfield, MA.
		In 1950, DeMille was awarded an honorary Academy Award, "for 37 years of brilliant showmanship," and he won the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1953.
		DeMille urged the group to consider switching from the short, two-reel films that were popular at the time, to a full-length, six-reel feature.
	www.cemeteryguide.com /demille.html (429 words)

	Demille, <b>Cecilb> B. (1881-1959) History Summary
		<b>Cecilb> Blount DeMille was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, on August 12, 1881.
		Demille, <b>Cecilb> B. Director <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille epitomized the film epic and Holly-wood's "Golden Age." From the 1910s through the 1950s, he was able to anticipate public taste and gauge America's changing moods.
		DeMille's popularity can largely be attributed to his dexterity with these seemingly contradictory positions and their appeal to audiences.
	www.bookrags.com /history/popculture/demille-cecil-b-1881-1959-sjpc-01 (655 words)

	<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille
		<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille was a great artist, a great director - he was big.
		DeMille was a born showman and had an innate sense of what the public would clamor for.
		DeMille's actresses crawled through the mud, came in contact with wild animals, submitted to very revealing costumes (by Adrian, of course!) and various humiliations which they were all glad to do.
	www.lostcitydemille.com /bio.html (2036 words)

	UCLA Film & Television Archive - Collections - <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille
		<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille's career as a director and producer spans five decades of motion pictures.
		Many of <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille's films are available for study and research at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
		Also available for study are clips of DeMille directing a scene from THIS DAY AND AGE, a promotional short showing D. Griffith visiting DeMille on the set of THE KING OF KINGS and Paramount newsreel footage featuring DeMille.
	www.cinema.ucla.edu /collections/profiles/demille.html (247 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Ten Commandments -- <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille - DVD - Wide Screen
		The Bible according to <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille is not the NIV, it isn’t the Septuagint, and it surely isn’t the King James Bible.
		DeMille’s vision of the Bible is derived from 19th Century steel engravings and early 20th Century color Sunday School quarterly illustrations—DeMille worked in bright primary colors because those were the colors his audience understood as good and right for the subject he was embracing.
		In making this epic, DeMille created a lasting document that is already long-proven; as this review is being written, “The Ten Commandments” is close upon a half-century’s vintage and still enjoys a huge popularity.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=97360502848&userid=vi3wlfkA9I&frm=0&itm=4 (1476 words)

	<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille @ Classic Movie Favorites - Film Firsts
		<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille @ Classic Movie Favorites - Film Firsts
		Especially during the silent era, when the film industry was in its infancy, DeMille created many new ways to solve problems and to enhance the film experience.
		In Male and Female — revolutionary treatment of sex and its establishment of DeMille as a pace-setting director of the early post war years.
	classicmoviefavorites.com /demille/firsts.html (273 words)

	<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		DeMille, <b>Cecilb> B. American motion-picture producer-director, whose use of spectacle attracted vast audiences and made him a dominant figure in Hollywood for almost five decades.
		DeMille, <b>Cecilb> B. Film director and producer <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille was often credited with making Hollywood, Calif., the motion picture capital of the world.
		<b>Cecilb> Blount DeMille was born in Ashfield, Mass., the son of a…
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9310956 (665 words)

	<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille: screen-prophet and cinema-apostle / by Charles Woessner.
		"<b>Cecilb> B. Demille and highbrow culture: authorship versus intertextuality." In: Film and authorship / edited and with an introduction by Virginia Wright Wexman.
		Nichols, Peter M. "When DeMille was more auteur than showman" (how director <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille's management and directing style from 1914 through the 1920s influenced the development of Hollywood's motion picture industry) The New York Times June 22, 1997 v146 s2 pH26(N) pH26(L) col 1 (18 col in)
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/demillebib.html (2284 words)

	<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille and American Culture
		<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era.
		In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMille artfully inserted cinema into genteel middle-class culture by replicating in his films such spectacles as elaborate parlor games, stage melodramas, department store displays, Orientalist world's fairs, and civic pageantry.
		Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped material from the DeMille Archives and other collections, Higashi provides imaginative readings of DeMille's early feature films, viewing them in relation to the dynamics of social change, and she documents the extent to which the emergence of popular culture was linked to the genteel tradition.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/6379.html (288 words)

	Images - <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille - The Visionary Years, 1915-1927
		Some of the best of these silent movies are now being released by Kino on Video as part of a six-cassette series, "<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille: The Visionary Years, 1915-1927," produced for Kino on Video by David Shepard of Film Preservation Associates in cooperation with the DeMille estate and the George Eastman House.
		"<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille: The Visionary Years, 1915-1927": The six videos comprising this set are available from Kino on Video.
		DeMille preferred to suggest deeper meanings by simply contrasting unlikely stories from different periods (look to the strange Babylonian flashback sequence in Male and Female for an example).
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue03/reviews/demille.htm (367 words)

	DeMille Studio Museum
		Note: You can find the tomb of <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille (and the crypt of Jesse Lasky) at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, right next door to giant Paramount Studios, the studio that the two men founded from this little barn.
		<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille repeated his 1913 success with a new 1918 silent version, and later, in 1931, he remade it again, this time as a talkie!)
		Although it was DeMille's first film (he even appeared in it as an extra), "The Squaw Man" went on to become a major box-office smash - the first hit movie made in Los Angeles.
	www.seeing-stars.com /Museums/StudioMuseum.shtml (1203 words)

	Portrait of the director <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille by Thomas Staedeli
		The director <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille impersonated the image of a Hollywood director and producer for many years.
		DeMille founded his own company in the middle of the 20's and realised among others the movies "The Road to Yesterday" (25), "The Volga Boatman" (26) and "The King of Kings" (27).
		DeMille reacted to this situation with the movies "Manslaughter" (22) and "The Ten Commandments" (23) with biblical background.
	www.cyranos.ch /spdemi-e.htm (536 words)

	Amazon.com: The Ten Commandments (50th Anniversary Collection): DVD: Ten Commandments
		<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille started his career directing silent films, where melodramatic body postures and facial expressions, rather than spoken dialogue, were used to convey the action.
		DeMille had many technical advisors and believed "the film was made in the office", meaning when the screenplay was completely finished line for line and scene for scene.
		No doubt this `greatest motion picture of all time', as it has been called, deserves to be re-released for its 50th anniversary and at any other time too, for that matter, but this beautiful 3-disc box set has many other features to help the viewer appreciate DeMille's work and enhance viewing pleasure.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000CNESNA?v=glance (3171 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Blount
		Son of Jacob Blount and Barbara (Gray) Blount; brother of William Blount; married to Jacky Sullivan Sumner; uncle of William Grainger Blount.
		Blount, William (1767-1835) — also known as Willie Blount — of Tennessee.
		Blount, Stephen William (1808-1890) — also known as Stephen W. Blount — of Texas.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/blount.html (605 words)

	Director as Star
		<b>Cecilb> Blount DeMille was a showman and a crowd pleaser.
		<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille (1881-1959) bridges the silent era and the sound era of film history.
		His name is synonymous with the "epic" and if the film was bigger than all other films, chances are it was directed by DeMille.
	web.uflib.ufl.edu /SPEC/belknap/exhibit2002/director.htm (352 words)

	<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille
		<b>Cecilb> Blount DeMille was an original aristocrat of Hollywood, but this aristocrat had humble beginnings.
		<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille was a great artist, a great director - he was big.
		DeMille was a born showman and had an innate sense of what the public would clamor for.
	www.lostcitydemille.com /bio.html (2036 words)

	CollectingChannel.com News Article
		He was born <b>Cecilb> Blount DeMille in Ashfield, Massachusetts, on August 12, 1881, of playwright parents.
		The <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille Museum will open at the Hollywood Forever cemetery where the film director is buried.
		The barn DeMille used to film The Squaw Man is a registered landmark, with a plaque designating it as "Hollywood’s First Major Film Company Studio." Visit it at 2100 North Highland (across from the Hollywood Bowl) or see it online in Donald Laird’s California State Historical Landmarks, a website recommended by the History Channel.
	www.collectingchannel.com /cdsDetArt.asp?CID=24&PID=12393 (348 words)

	<b>Cecilb> B. DeMille -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		<b>Cecilb> Blount DeMille was born in Ashfield, Mass., the son of a…
		DeMille, <b>Cecilb> B. American motion-picture producer-director, whose use of spectacle attracted vast audiences and made him a dominant figure in Hollywood for almost five decades.
		DeMille, <b>Cecilb> B. Film director and producer <b>Cecilb> B. DeMille was often credited with making Hollywood, Calif., the motion picture capital of the world.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9310956 (682 words)

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