DeMille's designs, especially his design of the cadet parade uniform, won praise from Air Force and Academy leadership, were ultimately adopted, and are still worn by cadets today.

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 ).

During this time that she appeared in what would become her signature role — Lilia the water girl, in Cecil B. DeMille's monumental production of The Ten Commandments-Fox lent her to Paramount.

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 ).

In 1999, critic Leonard Maltin opined that " like most of DeMille's movies, this may not be art, but it's hugely enjoyable ".

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.

Switzer received only minor footnotes in most newspapers, while DeMille's obituary dominated the columns.

During her six-decade career, her most prominent roles were featured in the films Salome Where She Danced, Criss Cross, and Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments.

These films were some of the highest grossing during this period with the best known and most successful being Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments.

Joy starred in a number of successful releases for Paramount and was heavily promoted as one of DeMille's most prominent protégés.

King Kong proved immensely popular, holding its own against new releases such as Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth ( which later won the Academy Award for Best Picture ).

The heavily-favored High Noon lost to Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth, which is now considered among the worst films to have ever won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Ironically, DeMille's cameo in Sunset Boulevard shows him filming a scene from Samson and Delilah.

While again on loan from Columbia, Cromwell's by then salary of $ 200 per week was paid by Paramount Pictures, DeMille's studio.

* In Cecil B. DeMille's 1947 Unconquered, starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard, with Howard Da Silva as a nefarious gunrunner and Boris Karloff as the Seneca chief, Cooper and Goddard save Fort Pitt from an Indian uprising fomented in 1763.

Built over 18 months, from January 1926 by a partnership headed by Sid Grauman, the theater opened May 18, 1927, with the premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's film The King of Kings.

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

Foch appeared in Scaramouche ( 1952 ) as Marie Antoinette, and in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ) as Bithia, Pharaoh's sister who finds the baby Moses in the bullrushes, adopts him as her son, and joins him and the Hebrews in their Exodus from Egypt.

DeMille's best work had been done before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was created.

DeMille's parents met while they were both members of a local music and literary society in New York.

In 1927, while researching The Skyscraper for DeMille Studios, Ayn Rand visited the building and, while waiting for her contact to arrive, went to the nearby Hollywood Branch Library, where she was reunited with Frank O ' Connor, whom she had lost track of 6 months earlier when DeMille's The King of Kings finished shooting ; Rand and O ' Connor then began dating, were married in 1929 until his death in 1979.

DeMille's pictures, lavish in detail and cost, made his studio a fortune, while Von Stroheim's similar ways, albeit to excess in footage and expense, resulted in films that were often either excessively cut by the studios or never released, leading to his being fired on several occasions.

Among the films she made with Paramount were The Love Parade ( 1929 ) with Maurice Chevalier, The Vagabond King ( 1930 ), Paramount on Parade ( 1930 ), Honey ( 1930 ; in which she introduced " Sing, You Sinners "), Cecil B. DeMille's Madam Satan ( 1930 ) with Reginald Denny and Kay Johnson, Sea Legs with Jack Oakie, and the Marx Brothers second film, Animal Crackers ( 1930 ).

For instance, Cedric Gibbons and Herbert Stothart always worked on MGM films, Alfred Newman worked at Twentieth Century Fox for twenty years, Cecil B. DeMille's films were almost all made at Paramount, director Henry King's films were mostly made for Twentieth-Century Fox, etc.

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.

Richard Cromwell owed his 1930s movie fame in part to being personally selected by DeMille for the role as the leader of the youth gang in DeMille's poignant, now cult-favorite, This Day and Age ( 1933 ).

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.

Moses was portrayed by Theodore Roberts in DeMille's 1923 silent film The Ten Commandments.

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

* Nelson DeMille's novel, Cathedral, ( 1981 ) concerns a fictional seizure and threatened destruction of Saint Patrick's Cathedral by members of the Irish Republican Army.

Next up, was an early standout performance by Cromwell in the role as the leader of the youth gang in Cecil B. DeMille's now cult-favorite, This Day and Age ( 1933 ).

Following his appearance in the critically praised but unsuccessful Maxwell Anderson-Harold Hickerson drama about the Sacco and Vanzetti case, Gods of the Lightning ( Bickford was the Sacco character ), Bickford was contacted by filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille and offered a contract with MGM studios to star in DeMille's first talking picture, Dynamite.

A clash over closed shop union rulings favored by the American Federation of Radio Artists ended DeMille's term as host of Lux Radio Theater.

Many DVD releases, including Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), Safety Last ( 1923 ), DeMille's The Godless Girl ( 1928 ), Chaplin's City Lights ( 1931 ) ( re-orchestrated by Davis based on Chaplin's and Padilla's original written score ) and Erich von Stroheim's Greed ( 1924 ), use Davis's music.

* In Cecil B. DeMille's 1934 film Cleopatra where he was portrayed by Leonard Mudie, Cleopatra kills him herself, after realizing that he is hiding behind a curtain, ready to murder Caesar.

Cecil DeMille's famous niece was named after her.

DeMille claimed he wrote the play and that Belasco had plagiarized DeMille's work without compensation.

Actor Richard Dix's best-remembered early role was in the silent version of DeMille's The Ten Commandments.

Paulette Goddard's refusal to risk personal injury in a scene involving fire in Unconquered cost her DeMille's favor and probably a role in The Greatest Show on Earth.

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.

A majority of the DeMille motion picture library now resides with EMKA, Ltd. through the television division of NBC Universal, due to Paramount Pictures ' losing the rights to the DeMille films in 1958 to EMKA, so technically it is Universal Pictures that now oversees a vast part of DeMille's motion picture career as well as its related archival material.

This belief made its contributions to literature in Edgar Allan Poe's " The Gold-Bug ", Washington Irving's The Devil and Tom Walker, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Nelson DeMille's Plum Island.

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.

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

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.