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.

DeMille also served as producer and / or director for many plays.

DeMille was also in closer touch with the reality of contemporary American life.

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

Moses appears as the central character in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille movie, also called The Ten Commandments, in which he is portrayed by Charlton Heston.

David Lean also admitted he was deeply indebted to Ingram, and MGM studio chief Dore Schary once listed the top creative people in Hollywood as D. W. Griffith, Ingram, Cecil B. DeMille, and Erich von Stroheim ( in declining order of importance ).

On the advice of director Cecil B. DeMille, Scott also gained much-needed acting experience by performing in stage plays with the Pasadena Playhouse.

Body builder Steve Reeves was also considered and DeMille lobbied long and hard to get the studio to pick up Reeves, but both DeMille and the studio wanted Reeves to tone down his physique, which Reeves, still young and new to the industry, ultimately refused to do.

The production is directed and choreographed by Marc Robin and also stars Lauren Blackman ( Betty Schaefer ), Curt Dale Clark ( Artie ), David Girolmo ( Max von Mayerling ) and Bill Nabel ( Cecil B. DeMille ).

Furthermore, Penkovsky's fate is also mentioned in the Nelson DeMille spy novel The Charm School.

The title of the film ( also the name of Dorff's character ) alludes to legendary director Cecil B. DeMille.

When AFRA ruled those not paying faced suspension from the union, and thus a ban from appearing on the air, DeMille was finished in radio — because he also refused to let anyone else pay the dollar for him.

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 ).

* There are also similarities in the films made by Flanders, and those made in the 1950s by Cecil B. DeMille.

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

Lasky gave her a starring role in the Civil War drama Held by the Enemy ( 1920 ), and also lobbied for parts for her in several Cecil B. DeMille productions.

They appeared on screen with Carmen Miranda and Groucho Marx in the 1947 film Copacabana, the same year that they joined Bob Hope and Cecil B. DeMille on the live premiere broadcast special launching KTLA in Los Angeles, the very first telecast west of the Mississippi.

Goudal appeared in several highly successful and acclaimed films for DeMille and became one of the top box office draws of the late 1920s.

Gloria Swanson immortalized DeMille with the oft-repeated line, " All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up " in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, wherein DeMille played himself.

They come from an executive named Gordon Cole, and Norma petulantly refuses to speak to anyone other than DeMille himself.

The role is uncredited, but the list of other uncredited performers in that film include Herb Alpert as a Hebrew drummer, Michael Ansara as an Egyptian taskmaster, Robert Vaughn as a Hebrew spearman, Clint Walker as a Sardinian captain, Eduard Franz as Jethro, Mary Lou Cotterman as Ishara, one of Jethros ' daughters, and DeMille himself as the film's narrator.

She is greeted warmly by former colleagues and the director himself, but DeMille remains noncommittal about Salome.

Despite Paramount's losses, DeMille would, however, give the studio some relief and create his most successful film at Paramount, a 1956 remake of his 1923 film The Ten Commandments.

Cecil B. DeMille cast her in three blockbusters: North West Mounted Police ( 1940 ), Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 ) ( where Goddard played a Scarlett O ' Hara-type role ), and Unconquered ( 1947 ).

Bess Flowers was first married on September 2, 1923, in Ventura County, California, to Cullen Tate ( 1894 – 1947 ), an assistant to Cecil B. DeMille.

The revamped musical had a new song, " Every Movie's A Circus ", a new set, and new stars, Betty Buckley and John Barrowman. Michael Bauer, who had played DeMille in the original production replaced Benzali as Max, a role he played until the end of the London run ( and subsequently on the UK tour and the BBC concert ) and Anita Louise Combe

Taylor is possibly best recalled for her roles in the 1922 drama Monte Cristo, opposite John Gilbert ; the enormously successful 1923 Cecil B. DeMille directed The Ten Commandments as Miriam, the sister of Moses ; as Lucrezia Borgia in the 1926 Warner Bros .' first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack Don Juan, with John Barrymore, Mary Astor and Warner Oland ; 1927's New York, featuring Ricardo Cortez and Lois Wilson ; 1931's Street Scene with Sylvia Sidney ; the Academy Award-winning Cimarron ; and the Clara Bow talkie Call Her Savage in 1932.

Harum Scarum ( released in Europe as Harem Holiday ) is a 1965 musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley which was shot on the original Cecil B. DeMille set from the film The King of Kings.

* The Wild Goose Chase ( film ), 1915 comedy / drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille

The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

DeMille later adopted many of Belasco's stage lighting and atmospheric techniques in such films as The Cheat, a move some saw as revenge against Belasco.

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

DeMille was, however, adept at directing " thousands of extras ", and many of his pictures included spectacular set pieces, such as the parting of the Red Sea in both versions of The Ten Commandments, the toppling of the pagan temple in Samson and Delilah, train wrecks in The Road to Yesterday, Union Pacific and The Greatest Show on Earth, and the destruction of a zeppelin in Madame Satan.

In 1995 she received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievements, one of many such awards.

While DeMille entertains Norma, many of the older guards, technicians and extras on the set recognize her and welcome her back.

According to Martin Scorsese, in this work Pastrone invented the epic movie and deserves credit for many of the innovations often attributed to D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille.

The Mayerling character states that he used to be one of the three great directors of the silent era, along with D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille ; many film critics agree that Stroheim was indeed one of the great early directors.

In Los Angeles Josephine became friends with many celebrities, including Cecil B. DeMille and Gary Cooper.

The original Board of Trustees included many of the biggest names in Hollywood such as Charles Christie, Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., William S. Hart, Jesse L. Lasky, Harold Lloyd, Mae Murray, Hal Roach, Donald Crisp and Irving Thalberg.

The success of Lamb's two volume history of the Crusades led to his discovery by Cecil B. DeMille, who employed Lamb as a technical advisor on a related movie, The Crusades, and used him as a screenwriter on many other DeMille movies thereafter.

DeMille co-starred with some of the men and women whom he would later direct in films ( i. e. Charlotte Walker, Mary Pickford, and Pedro de Cordoba, among others ).

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 ).

In the end DeMille rejected Rand's script, and the actual film followed Murphy's original idea, but Rand's version contained elements that she would later use in The Fountainhead.

DeMille would later describe Lamarr as " a gazelle – incapable of a clumsy or wrong move ", and she would flirtatiously refer to herself as " Delilah " and DeMille as her " Samson ".

Wyler later admitted that he wished to " out DeMille DeMille " and make a " thinking man's " Biblical epic.

In his 1959 autobiography, DeMille alleged that a former member of the American Communist Party later confided to him that the party had consciously orchestrated these circumstances of his exclusion from radio, as they considered him to be one of their two foremost enemies in radio.

Cecil B. DeMille, later known as a family entertainment specialist, included several nude scenes in his early epics such as The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ).

DeMille later claimed that Goudal was so difficult to work with that he eventually fired her and cancelled their contract.