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 appeared as himself in Paramount's 1947 all-star musical comedy Variety Girl and he narrated many of his later films, as well as appearing on screen in the introduction to The Ten Commandments.

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.

Because of illness, he asked his son-in-law, actor Anthony Quinn, to direct a remake of his 1938 film The Buccaneer ; although DeMille served as executive producer, he was unhappy with Quinn's work and tried unsuccessfully to remedy the situation.

From 1939 to 1942, Maxwell served as the dialogue director for the films of epic director Cecil B. DeMille.

Cecil Blount DeMille ( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959 ) was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films.

DeMille as producer of the CBS Radio Theatre, 1937

Sir Thomas Sean Connery ( born 25 August 1930 ) is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards ( one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award ) and three Golden Globes ( including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award ).

* August 12 – Cecil B. DeMille, American film director and producer ( d. 1959 )

* Cecil B. DeMille ( 1881 – 1959 ), film director, producer ( The Ten Commandments ).

Recognizing its subject as an international figure within the entertainment industry, the first award was presented to director and producer, Cecil B. DeMille.

* Cecil B. DeMille ( 1881 – 1959 ), director / producer

* Cecil B. DeMille, film director and producer

The Squaw Man went on to become the only movie successfully filmed three times by the same director / producer, DeMille.

The 1938 version was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, but he was seriously ill by the time the 1958 version was made, so he was only the executive producer on that version, leaving his then son-in-law, Anthony Quinn, to direct.

Henry Wilcoxon, DeMille's long-time friend, who made frequent appearances in his films, was the actual producer, and DeMille did not receive screen credit, though students of his films would probably say that his touch is obvious throughout the film.

Goudal then worked in the Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky co-production of The Spaniard and her growing fame brought her to the attention of producer / director Cecil B. DeMille.

Samson and Delilah, although pre-1950, has been retained by Paramount, as are all the DeMille / Paramount silent films produced before 1928, and all sound films produced after 1950 — television distribution for those films is handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.

However, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award – World Film Favorite Actor / Actress or Cecil B. DeMille Award – Barbra Streisand leads with 9 awards.

* William C. DeMille ( 1878 – 1955 ), director / writer

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

* DeMille Middle School ( Closed / Demolished in 2011 ) ( Long Beach )

* 1881 – Cecil B. DeMille, American director ( d. 1959 )

Also representative of his penchant for the spectacular was the 1952 production of The Greatest Show on Earth which gave DeMille an Oscar for best picture and a nomination for best director.

Critic Leonard Maltin labeled Hawks " the greatest American director who is not a household name ," noting that, while his work may not be as well known as Ford, Welles, or DeMille, he is no less a talented filmmaker.

The Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with virtually no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a suitable location site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first feature film, The Squaw Man.

** Cecil B. DeMille, American film director ( b. 1881 )

A special train from Hollywood carried director Cecil B. DeMille and stars Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea.

Secretary Talbott then sought out legendary Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille for help.

Ashfield is the birthplace of prominent director Cecil B. DeMille ( whose parents were vacationing in the town at the time ), Alvan Clark, nineteenth century astronomer and telescope maker, and William S. Clark, member of the Massachusetts Senate and third president of Massachusetts Agricultural College ( now UMass-Amherst ).

* Constance Adams DeMille ( 1874-1960 ), actress and wife of director Cecil B. DeMille.

* Cecil B. DeMille ( 1881 – 1959 ), director.

The year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of Cecil B. DeMille as a director.

Anti-communist director Cecil B. DeMille cast him as Dathan in The Ten Commandments in 1956, freeing him to make A-list films again.

Anthony Quinn and his wife Katherine DeMille ( daughter of Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille ) were visiting Fields one afternoon when the Quinns ' two-year-old son, Christopher, drowned in Fields ’ s lily pond.

Cecil B. DeMille, director of epic movies like The Ten Commandments and The King of Kings, was the first director to use a megaphone during production.