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DeMille and asked
To ensure that Cromwell's character used current slang, DeMille asked Horace Hahn to read the script and comment ( at the time, Hahn was senior class president at Los Angeles High School ).
Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.
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.
DeMille reportedly asked Boyd to take the role of Moses in his remake, The Ten Commandments, but Boyd felt his identification with the Cassidy character would make it impossible for audiences to accept him as Moses.
To ensure that Cromwell's character used current slang, DeMille asked high school student Horace Hahn to read the script and comment ( at the time, Hahn was senior class president at Los Angeles High School ).

DeMille and Paramount
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.
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.
DeMille, associated with Paramount since 1913, kept making pictures in the grand old style.
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.
Its circle of stars faded in with the announcement: " Paramount Presents – A Cecil B. DeMille Production.
After a while, Norma considers her script complete, and sends it to Cecil B. DeMille at Paramount and waits for his answer.
Also in 1933, " while acting on stage in Eight Bells, a talent scout for Paramount Pictures reportedly arranged a screen test which came to the attention of producer-director Cecil B. DeMille in Hollywood.
The center piece event of the celebration occurred on April 28 with the World Premier of the Cecil B. DeMille feature motion picture " Union Pacific " which took place simultaneously in the city's Omaha, Orpheum, and Paramount theaters.
Samson and Delilah is a 1949 film made by Paramount Pictures ( and one of few pre-1950 films by the studio to remain under its ownership ), produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr as the title characters.
Director DeMille had a cameo in Billy Wilder's film Sunset Boulevard in a scene where the character of Norma Desmond meets with the director on a film set at Paramount studios.
Besides filming at Paramount Studios, De Carlo accompanied DeMille and the rest of the crew to Egypt, where several exterior shots were filmed.
Paramount sold a majority of their sound live-action feature film library released until November 3, 1949 ( with Chicago Deadline being the latest title in the library, including films by Cecil B. DeMille and Preston Sturges ) to MCA, and thus, through their new dummy company, EMKA, they were able to make a profit via airings on television.
DVD cover, The Ten Commandments 1956, Cecil B. DeMille, Paramount Pictures
Through connections with director William C. DeMille, Dorothy got a job at Paramount Pictures.
He worked for DeMille Productions, Paramount Pictures Inc. and RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
With her increasing popularity, Joy was sought out by Cecil B. DeMille and signed to contract to Paramount Pictures in 1922 and that same year was cast in the successful high-society drama Saturday Night opposite Conrad Nagel.
In 1925, against the advice of studio executives, Joy parted ways with Paramount and followed DeMille to his new film company, Producers Distributing Corporation, and she made a few modestly successful films for the company, including Lois Weber's last silent film The Angel of Broadway in 1927.

DeMille and Pictures
* 1960: Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for " Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures "
* Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures
Soon after the release of The Gaucho, Vélez made her second major film, Stand and Deliver ( 1928 ), in which she played a Greek peasant girl, for the Cecil B. DeMille division of Pathé Pictures.
Goudal filed a lawsuit for breach of contract against him and DeMille Pictures Corporation.

DeMille and put
A chorus girl by age 18, Keyes was put under contract by Cecil B. DeMille.

DeMille and under
It's a cover of the Mariah Carey Christmas classic " All I want for Christmas Is You " Its available on iTunes, under her new pseudonym Evelyn DeMille.
He worked under contract to Cecil B. DeMille, and played Pontius Pilate in DeMille's 1927 production of The King of Kings.

DeMille and contract
In 1919, she decided to move to greater dramatic roles and accepted a contract offering from Cecil B. DeMille, who gave her secondary roles in such films as Male and Female ( 1919 ), Why Change Your Wife?
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.
DeMille later claimed that Goudal was so difficult to work with that he eventually fired her and cancelled their contract.

DeMille and idea
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 and was
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 was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts while his parents were vacationing there, and grew up in Washington, North Carolina.
While he is known as DeMille ( his nom d ' oeuvre ), his family name was Dutch and is usually spelled " de Mil ".
His mother was Matilda Beatrice DeMille ( née Samuel ), whose parents were both of German Jewish heritage.
Cecil B. DeMille was known for being an instrumental catalyst for the rising status of many a struggling or unknown actor.
( DeMille remarked that Mature was " 100 % yellow ").
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.
DeMille was one of the first directors in Hollywood to become a celebrity in his own right.
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.
In 1949 or 1950, DeMille was recruited by Allen Dulles and Frank Wisner to serve on the board of the anti-communist National Committee for a Free Europe, the public face of the organization that oversaw the Radio Free Europe service.
Though DeMille was respected by his peers, his individual films were often criticized by them.
In 1955 and 1957, DeMille was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.
Cecil B. DeMille was a leading figure in the increased use of the Insert, and by 1918 he had reached the point of including about 9 Inserts in every 100 shots in The Whispering Chorus.
The first of these was Cecil B. DeMille, whose films, such as The Cheat ( 1915 ), brought out the moral dilemmas facing their characters in a more subtle way than Griffith.
DeMille was also in closer touch with the reality of contemporary American life.
In 2003 at the Golden Globes, Hackman was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his " outstanding contribution to the entertainment field.
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 ).
The play was written by William C. deMille, whose brother, the then-unknown Cecil B. DeMille, also appeared in the cast.
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 ).
The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Lucille Ball was offered Gloria Grahame's role in the picture by DeMille, but dropped out when she discovered she was pregnant with her first child, Lucie Arnaz.

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