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

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.

DeMille married Constance Adams on August 16, 1902 and had one child, Cecilia.

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.

Joe and Max, meanwhile, learn that Cole had called because the studio wants to rent her car and has no interest in her script ( DeMille tells an assistant in private that the script is awful ).

After the tour ended Kosloff had been hired by Cecil B. DeMille to perform as well as contribute designs.

Rambova's work had been used in four DeMille films, including, Why Change Your Wife ?, which featured Gloria Swanson and Thomas Meighan, before her signing with Nazimova.

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.

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.

As a boy, he had a paper route, and delivered the Los Angeles Times to Cecil B. DeMille and other people in the film industry.

In 1913, Cecil B. DeMille, in association with Jesse Lasky, leased a barn with studio facilities on the southeast corner of Selma and Vine Streets from the Burns and Revier Studio and Laboratory, which had been established there.

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

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.

It was donated to the State of Texas in 1961 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, a civic organization, with the support of Cecil B. DeMille, who had directed the film The Ten Commandments.

Richard had been adopted by Cecil B. and Constance DeMille to avoid a family scandal.

Although DeMille claimed her conduct had caused numerous and costly production delays, in a landmark ruling, Goudal won the suit when DeMille was unwilling to provide his studio's financial records to support his claim of financial losses.

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

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

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

In 1954, Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott sought out DeMille for help in designing the cadet uniforms at the newly established United States Air Force Academy.

During on-location filming in Egypt of the Exodus sequence for 1956's The Ten Commandments, the then-75-year-old DeMille climbed a 107-foot ladder to the top of the massive Per Rameses set and suffered a near-fatal heart attack.

Though DeMille completed the film, it proved to be his last, for he never fully recovered, and died on January 21, 1959 of heart failure.

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.

In the mid-1950s, DeMille oversaw the development of a family of distinctive uniforms designed for use by the cadets, at the new Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs CO, for which he received the Defense Department's Exceptional Service Award.

In 1955 and 1957, DeMille was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.

With DeMille renowned for his flamboyance and showmanship, Queen frontman Freddie Mercury famously said of his band, " We're the Cecil B. DeMille of rock and roll, always wanting to do things bigger and better ".

She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards ( World Film Favorite ), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

While Day turned down a tribute offer from the American Film Institute, she received and accepted the Golden Globe's Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in 1989.

DeMille began his career as an actor on the Broadway stage in the theatrical company of Charles Frohman in 1900.

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 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.

Following the favorable response to the vivid color photography, shot partly on location in the Canadian Rockies, DeMille decided to always use Technicolor in his films.

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 ).

Nevertheless, counting on the aficionado, publishers issued spy novels by writers popular during the Cold War proper, among them Harlots Ghost ( 1991 ) by Norman Mailer and novels by Nelson DeMille, W. E. B.

Senator Joseph McCarthy was pursuing Communists at the time, and Cecil B. DeMille was one of his supporters ; another Best Picture nominee, High Noon, was produced by Carl Foreman, who would soon be on the Hollywood blacklist.

A 1939 radio adaptation of the story, starring Laurence Olivier and Edna Best, was presented by Cecil B. DeMille on Lux Radio Theatre, Hollywood.

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

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.

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.

Fields was listed in the 1940 census as single and living at 2015 DeMille Drive ( Cecil B. DeMille lived at 2000, the only other address on the street ).

* The Virginian ( 1914 film ), a silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Dustin Farnum, based on the novel

The gold spike used in the 1939 Cecil B. DeMille movie, Union Pacific depicting the event, was the same one used in 1869, on loan to DeMille by its curator, Stanford University.

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.