* 1881 – Cecil B. DeMille, American director ( d. 1959 )

With his quick wits and the assistance of drunken gunslinger Jim ( Gene Wilder ), also known as " The Waco Kid " (" I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille "), Bart works to overcome the townsfolk's hostile reception.

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Cecil B. DeMille was known for being an instrumental catalyst for the rising status of many a struggling or unknown actor.

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From 1936 to 1944, DeMille hosted and acted as pitchman for Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theater, a popular dramatic radio show of the time.

The Golden Globe's annual Cecil B. DeMille Award recognizes lifetime achievement in the film industry.

Two schools are named after him, Cecil B. DeMille Middle school, in Long Beach, California, and Cecil B. DeMille elementary school in Midway City, California.

With DeMille renowned for his flamboyance and showmanship, Queen frontman Freddie Mercury famously said of his band, " We're the Cecil B. DeMille of rock and roll, always wanting to do things bigger and better ".

* Cleopatra ( 1934 film ), an American film directed by Cecil B. DeMille

She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards ( World Film Favorite ), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

While Day turned down a tribute offer from the American Film Institute, she received and accepted the Golden Globe's Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in 1989.

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Insert shot in Old Wives for New ( Cecil B. DeMille, 1918 )

Cecil B. DeMille was a leading figure in the increased use of the Insert, and by 1918 he had reached the point of including about 9 Inserts in every 100 shots in The Whispering Chorus.

Cross-cutting was also used to get new effects of contrast, such as the cross-cut sequence in Cecil B. DeMille's The Whispering Chorus, in which a supposedly dead husband is having a liaison with a Chinese prostitute in an opium den, while simultaneously his unknowing wife is being remarried in church.

The first of these was Cecil B. DeMille, whose films, such as The Cheat ( 1915 ), brought out the moral dilemmas facing their characters in a more subtle way than Griffith.

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* 1981 – Cecil B. DeMille Award at Golden Globes.

In 2003 at the Golden Globes, Hackman was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his " outstanding contribution to the entertainment field.

He was next employed as a prop boy and general assistant on an unspecified film directed by Cecil B. DeMille ( Hawks never named the film in later interviews and DeMille made five films roughly in that time period ).

Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.

Cecil Mason of Hartford, Conn., was best man for his brother, and groomsmen were Rhodes S. Baker 3, of Houston, Dr. James Carter of Houston and Conrad McEachern of New Orleans, La..

* 1900 – Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist ( d. 2003 )

While at prep school as a boarder his mother wrote to tell him she was marrying Cecil Pye, a bank manager, and when he was at home for the holidays his new family consisted of his mother, his stepfather and Christopher, his stepfather's son by an earlier marriage.

Kevin Kiernan argues that Nowell most likely acquired it through William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, in 1563, when Nowell entered Cecil ’ s household as a tutor to his ward, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

The marriage produced eight children: Geraldine Leigh ( b. 1944 ), Michael John ( b. 1946 ), Josephine Hannah ( b. 1949 ), Victoria ( b. 1951 ), Eugene Anthony ( b. 1953 ), Jane Cecil ( b. 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 1959 ), and Christopher James ( b. 1962 ).

Chaplin also concentrated on his family, to which he and Oona added three more children, Jane Cecil ( b. 23 May 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 3 December 1959 ) and Christopher James ( b. 8 July 1962 ).

Cecil Blount DeMille ( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959 ) was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films.

Cecil was 11 at the time.

Cecil DeMille attended Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Pennsylvania from the age of 15.

The play was written by William C. deMille, whose brother, the then-unknown Cecil B. DeMille, also appeared in the cast.

Colbert was cast as a femme fatale in Cecil B. DeMille's films where she wears fetishistic costumes which lose another layer of clothing.

He made his feature film debut in 1938 with a supporting role in Dad and Dave Come to Town for director Ken G. Hall, who went on to cast Finch in a larger role supporting Cecil Kellaway in Mr. Chedworth Steps Out ( 1939 ).

Anti-communist director Cecil B. DeMille cast him as Dathan in The Ten Commandments in 1956, freeing him to make A-list films again.

It was directed by Coward, and the principal cast members were Kay Hammond as Elvira, Margaret Rutherford as Madame Arcati, Cecil Parker as Charles and Fay Compton as Ruth.

The show had major London revivals in 1921, 1930, 1942 ( starring Sylvia Cecil at the London Coliseum ) and 1972 in an Emile Littler production at the Palace Theatre in the West End, and at the Finborough Theatre, London, in December 2006 with a West End cast including Anita Louise Combe, as well as numerous other professional productions elsewhere.

Also in the cast were Alan Oppenheimer as Cecil B. DeMille and Vincent Tumeo making his Broadway debut as Artie Green.

A cast was placed at Rhodes Memorial in Cape Town, South Africa, honouring the grandiose imperial vision of Cecil Rhodes.

Lucas's most successful play was the thriller Land's End ( Westminster Theatre, Feb .- March 1938, 29 performances, with Cathleen Nesbitt, Cecil Trouncer and Alan Napier among the cast ) – " as full of drama as an egg is full of meat ", noted The Stage.

The Shakespearian asides given by Beany, Cecil and the rest of the cast were magnificent and often alluded to embarrassing public fiascos or personages, on which the adult audience immediately picked up.

The cast starred James Barton ( Theodore " Hickey " Hickman ), Jeanne Cagney ( Margie ), Leo Chalzel ( Hugo Kalmar ), Russell Collins ( James " Jimmy Tomorrow " Cameron ), Paul Crabtree ( Don Parritt ), Dudley Digges ( Harry Hope ), Ruth Gilbert ( Pearl ), Charles Hart ( Lieb ), Nicholas Joy ( Cecil " The Captain " Lewis ), Marcella Markham ( Cora ), Joe Marr ( Chuck Morello ), John Marriott ( Joe Mott ), E. G. Marshall ( Willie Oban ), Al McGranary ( Pat McGloin ), Tom Pedi ( Rocky Pioggi ), Carl Benton Reid ( Larry Slade ), Morton L. Stevens ( Ed Mosher ), Frank Tweddell ( Piet " The General " Wetjoen ), and Michael Wyler ( Moran ).

Another cast member, Cecil B. DeMille, also staged the play.

This " new and critical comedy " opened at the Court in 1882, with a cast including Arthur Cecil, D. G. Boucicault and Marion Terry.

Harris continued to work in film in the early 1940s, largely through the kindness of her former director, Cecil B. DeMille, who cast her in bit parts in 1942's Reap the Wild Wind ( starring Paulette Goddard, who, like Harris, was once married to Charlie Chaplin ), and 1944's The Story of Dr. Wassell.

The cast for a performance at the Gaiety in 1880 included Cecil as Box, George Grossmith as Cox and Corney Grain as Bouncer.

) The cast of the film included Vincent Price ( in his first horror-film role ), Cecil Kellaway, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nan Grey, Alan Napier and John Sutton.

With her increasing popularity, Joy was sought out by Cecil B. DeMille and signed to contract to Paramount Pictures in 1922 and that same year was cast in the successful high-society drama Saturday Night opposite Conrad Nagel.