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De Mille began her association with the fledgling American Ballet Theatre ( then called the Ballet Theatre ) in 1939, but her first significant work, Rodeo ( 1942 ) with the score by Aaron Copland, was staged for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
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Within eight weeks after his death, to provide an income for the family, Beatrice opened an acting workshop in her home, the Henry C. De Mille School for Girls.
De Mille found success in the spring of 1913 producing Reckless Age by Lee Wilson.
" The critic Pauline Kael called De Mille " a sanctimonious manipulator-used to satisfy the voyeuristic needs of the God-abiding by showing them what they were missing by being good and then soothe them by showing them the terrible punishments they escaped by being good.
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De Mille later restaged the dances as a stand-alone ballet, Gold Rush.
De Mille won the Tony Award for Best Choreography, and Bell and Mitchell won the Theatre World Award.
It was revived on Broadway seven years later, directed by George H. Englund and choreographed by De Mille, opening on April 15, 1957, at the Adelphi Theatre, where it ran for 24 performances.
Another Broadway revival, directed by John Fearnley and choreographed by De Mille, opened on January 30, 1963, at New York City Center, where it ran for 16 performances.
The next Broadway revival, directed by Vivian Matalon and choreographed by De Mille, opened on October 16, 1980, at the Majestic Theatre, where it ran for 133 performances and eight previews.
While filming the finale by night at De Mille Airfield near Los Angeles, Elliott was to dive the plane, carrying himself and Locklear, towards some oil derricks and appear to crash it.
De Mille lived on 114th Street.
De Mille saw an apparition-me-pass him by, reciting the gravedigger's lines from ' Hamlet ,' and he instructed me to report to him the following day.
De Mille lacked flexibility and technique, though, and did not have a dancer's body.
De Mille graduated from UCLA where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, and in 1933 moved to London to study with Dame Marie Rambert, eventually joining Rambert's company, The Ballet Club, later Ballet Rambert, and Antony Tudor's London Ballet.
De Mille went on to choreograph over a dozen other musicals, most notably Bloomer Girl ( 1944 ), Carousel ( 1945 ), Brigadoon ( 1947 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1949 ), Paint Your Wagon ( 1951 ), The Girl in Pink Tights ( 1954 ), Goldilocks ( 1957 ), and 110 in the Shade ( 1963 ).
De Mille revolutionized musical theatre by creating choreography which not only conveyed the emotional dimensions of the characters but enhanced the plot.
De Mille regularly worked with a recognizable core group of dancers, including Virginia Bosler, Gemze de Lappe, Lidija Franklin, Jean Houloose, Dania Krupska, Bambi Linn, Joan McCracken, James Mitchell, Mavis Ray, and, at American Ballet Theatre, Sallie Wilson.
De Mille was married on June 14, 1943 to Walter Prude.
De Mille's many awards include a Tony Award, the Handel Medallion for achievement in the arts ( 1976 ), an honor from the Kennedy Center ( 1980 ), an Emmy for her work in The Indomitable de Mille ( 1980 ), Drama Desk Special Award ( 1986 ) and, in 1986, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
De Mille also has received seven honorary degrees from various colleges and universities.
De Mille was a lifelong friend of modern dance legend Martha Graham.
It has since gained a cult following for its numerous in-jokes skewering pompous directors — including Cecil B. de Mille, John Huston, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and De Sica himself — vain film stars, their starstruck audiences, and pretentious film critics.
De Mille silent Male and Female, and the 1934 We're Not Dressing, a Bing Crosby vehicle.
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De Bohun lowered his lance and began a charge that carried him to lasting fame.
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Pacquiao won by TKO before the 9th round began ( De La Hoya retired on his stool ).
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