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.

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.

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.

* A stylized version of the mountain was featured in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments.

Alma-Tadema's meticulous archaeological research, including research into Roman architecture ( which was so thorough that every building featured in his canvases could have been built using Roman tools and methods ) led to his paintings being used as source material by Hollywood directors in their vision of the ancient world for films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), Ben Hur ( 1926 ), Cleopatra ( 1934 ), and most notably of all, Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

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 then played a demented submarine commander in Devil and the Deep with Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper and Cary Grant, and followed this with his best-remembered film role of that year as Nero in Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross.

He also landed a number of Broadway and film roles, including the role of " Willie " in Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth ( 1952 ).

In February 1927, an agreement was signed by five leading Hollywood movie companies: the so-called Big Two — Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — a pair of studios in the next rank — Universal and the fading First National — and Cecil B. DeMille's small but prestigious Producers Distributing Corporation ( PDC ).

The film was adapted for Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theater aired on January 3, 1944 with its original leading actress and William Powell as Uncle Charlie.

Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments is seen on television at the Neary household.

Henry Wilcoxon ( September 8, 1905 – March 6, 1984 ) was an actor born in Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies, and best known as a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMille's films, also serving as DeMille's associate producer on his later films.

* She is played by Anne Baxter in Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 epic film The Ten Commandments.

From Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( film ) | The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 )

After leaving MGM in 1945, she enjoyed her biggest success as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1949, with Victor Mature as the Biblical strongman.

He was also featured as King Arthur in the comedy / musical, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ( 1949 ), singing Busy Doing Nothing in a trio with Bing Crosby and William Bendix, and as the Pharaoh Seti I in Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 film The Ten Commandments.

She was re-teamed with Cooper, playing Calamity Jane in Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman ( 1936 ), and appeared as a working girl, her typical role, in Mitchell Leisen's 1937 screwball comedy Easy Living, opposite Ray Milland.

Baxter is also remembered for her role as the Egyptian Queen Nefertari opposite Charlton Heston's portrayal of Moses in Cecil B. DeMille's award winning The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

This spawned the 1959 Steve Reeves sequel Hercules Unchained, the 1959 re-release of Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah ( 1951 ), and literally dozens of imitations that followed in their wake.

A member of Cecil B. DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, he was one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood history.

Mature also starred with Hedy Lamarr in Cecil B. DeMille's Biblical epic, Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ) and as Horemheb in The Egyptian ( 1954 ) with Jean Simmons and Gene Tierney.

On the big screen, she played a golddigger in Anthony Mann's western The Furies ( 1950 ), Herodias in Salome ( 1953 ) and Memnet in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

MacDonald appeared in condensed radio versions of many of her films on programs like Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theater, usually with Nelson Eddy, and the Railroad Hour which starred Gordon MacRae.

The more famous ones include the " bamboo-copter " ( very similar to the ones that appears on the older series of Beany and Cecil ), a small head accessory that allows flight ; the " Anywhere Door ", a door that opens up to any place the user wishes ; and the " Time Machine ".

* Like Laertes, who received the famous list of maxims from his father Polonius, Robert Cecil received a similar list from his father Burghley — a list that E. K. Chambers suggested as Shakespeare's likely source.

The discovery of copper is owed partly to Frederick Russell Burnham, the famous American scout who worked for Cecil Rhodes.

Byrd's contribution includes the famous Earl of Salisbury Pavan, composed in memory of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, who had died on 24 May 1612, and its two accompanying galliards.

The Calderon Brothers, famous filmmakers in Mexico, led her to Hollywood, where she met Cecil B. DeMille, who offered her work in the Metro-Goldwyn Mayer.

* Booksellers William and Gilbert Foyle, founders of the world famous Foyles, opened their first West End shop at 16 Cecil Court in 1904, before moving onto the current site in Charing Cross Road in 1906.

* In 1983 the British commercial telephone directory company Yellow Pages filmed their famous Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley in Cecil Court.

This ' red line ' ( i. e. a proposed railway, see Cape-Cairo railway ) through Africa was made most famous by Englishman and South African political force Cecil Rhodes, who wanted Africa " painted Red ".

His pieces include six symphonies, a number of concertos, including two for violin, one for marimba and orchestra ( premiered by Ruth Stuber ), one for one piano, one for two pianos, one for accordion and one for alto saxophone ( the latter dedicated to Cecil Leeson ), a fantasia for trombone and orchestra ( composed for and premiered by Robert Marsteller ), and a Rapsodie again for alto saxophone-written for famous virtuoso Jean-Marie Londeix.

She worked with famous fashion photographers Irving Penn, John Rawlings, Cecil Beaton, and Paul Radkai.

Wellesley's paternal grandparents included the famous Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Catherine Pakenham and, on the maternal side, Henry Pierrepont, Lady Sophia Cecil.

* Cecil B. DeMille — the famous director

" His teachings attracted famous celebrities of his time including Cecil B. DeMille, Peggy Lee, and Cary Grant.

It was most famous in the 20th century as the home of the Happy Gang, a troupe of comics, singers and musicians including Danny Cummins and Cecil Nash.

James Cecil Dickens ( born December 19, 1920 ), better known as Little Jimmy Dickens, is an American country music singer famous for his humorous novelty songs, his small size, 4 ' 11 " ( 150 cm ), and his rhinestone-studded outfits.

Berners obtained some notoriety for his roman à clef The Girls of Radcliff Hall ( punning on the name of the famous lesbian writer ), published under the pseudonym " Adela Quebec ", in which he depicts himself and his circle of friends, such as Cecil Beaton and Oliver Messel, as members of a girls school.

Ultisols are the dominant soils in the Southern United States ( where the Cecil series is most famous ), southeastern China, Southeast Asia and some other subtropical and tropical areas.

Earlier in the season, Cecil Fielder had told a magazine that it was his famous name that led to his son being such a highly touted prospect.

Though not as famous today as Cecil, he was one of the silent film era's most respected directors.

This decision was made partly for reasons of prestige, as the capture of Kimberley ( which contained the famous Imperialist and former Prime Minister of Cape Colony, Cecil Rhodes ) would be a major propaganda victory for the British.

J. D. Sumner, Cecil Blackwood and James Blackwood of The Blackwood Brothers were the founders of the famous National Quartet Convention formerly held in Memphis, Tennessee.

A typical and very famous Bochner role was that of the scheming Cecil Colby on Dynasty, in part due to his notorious death scene ( the character suffered a heart attack while having sex with Alexis Carrington ( Joan Collins ), and later died in his hospital bed seconds after marrying her ).

1883 was also the year in which the privately owned and run Adelaide College of Music was jointly established, by the young Cecil Sharp ( later to become famous as collector of folk songs ) and the Leipzig-trained pianist, Gottfried Immanuel Reimann.

Darkfeather was Cecil B. DeMille's first choice to portray the Indian wife, Nat-u-ritch, in his famous western The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), but she was too busy, as she and Montgomery were producing their own movies independently for release through the Kalem Company, and she was unavailable to play the role.