A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

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.

Among the books found in his library ( as evidenced in Lovecraft's Library by S. T. Joshi ) was " The Seven Who Were Hanged " by Leonid Andreyev and " A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder " by James De Mille.

De Mille later restaged the dances as a stand-alone ballet, Gold Rush.

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 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.

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.

It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.

De Forest ultimately won before the Supreme Court in 1934 on technical grounds, but most sources regard Armstrong's claim as the stronger one.

In 1961 Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a woman who is raped in World War II, along with her adolescent daughter, in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women.

De Niro won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John " Johnny Boy " Civello.

On that occasion the party won 48. 5 % of the vote, but, despite its absolute majority in the Italian Parliament, De Gasperi continued to govern at the head of a centrist coalition that included the Italian Workers ' Socialist Party ( PSLI-a 1947 break-away from the PSI ), the Liberals and the Republicans.

On the other hand, producers Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti are considered to have personally won the 1956 Foreign Language Film Award given to Fellini's La Strada ( 1954 ), since their names were explicitly included in the nomination.

Asked for comment on De la Madrid's statements, Senator Manuel Bartlett, who was the president of the Federal Electoral Commission ( Comisión Federal Electoral ) during the de la Madrid administration, declared Salinas won the election albeit with the smallest margin of any PRI candidate before him.

* Alistair MacLeod won the 2001 IMPAC Award for No Great Mischief and Rawi Hage won it in 2008 for De Niro's Game.

De Gaulle won the 1965 presidential election, opposed on his left by François Mitterrand who had taken the lead of the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left, a coalition of most left-wing parties ( apart from the French Communist Party, then led by Waldeck Rochet who did call to vote for Mitterrand ).

Although De Forest ultimately won the case in the courts, Owens is today recognized as a central innovator in the field.

In 1969, unlike most of FNRI ’ s elected officials, he advocated a " no " vote in the referendum about the regions and the Senate, while De Gaulle had announced his intention to resign if the " no " won.

In a rematch with De La Hoya for the WBC Welterweight belt in September 1998, De La Hoya won by 8th round TKO.

Pacquiao won by TKO before the 9th round began ( De La Hoya retired on his stool ).

During his career he fought Oscar De La Hoya winning the Lineal and World Boxing Council welterweight champion, Fernando Vargas in a unification fight where with sensei Fabio Martella he won the International Boxing Federation's light middleweight title, and William Joppy for the World Boxing Association's middleweight championship.

Nicknamed " The Golden Boy ," De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from James A. Garfield High School.

De La Hoya has defeated 17 world champions and has won ten world titles in six different weight classes.

De La Hoya won a disputed twelve round unanimous decision to capture the Lineal and WBC titles.

The group around De Savorin Lohman, won 11 % of the vote and six seats.

He first gained prominence for his portrayal of short statured dispatcher Louie De Palma on the ABC and NBC television series Taxi ( 1978 – 1983 ), for which he won a Golden Globe and an Emmy.

In 2006 they won the United States Marine Corps Esprit De corps award, second place in USSBA, and Best Percussion.

Mingo Junction served as the Pennsylvania steel mill town in the 1978 film The Deer Hunter, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and starred Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, and John Cazale.