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 * CECIL B. DEMILLE**

[|Demille, Celil B. IMDB]



Cecil B. DeMille began his career on Broadway as an actor in the theater company Charles Frohman. DeMille also served as producer and sometimes director for many plays, some of wich later became silent and sound films.Cecil and his brother sometimes worked with David Belasco who was famous for his stage scenses and atmouphere. Belasco premired a play called The Return of Peter Grimm which DeMille clamied he wrote and that Belasco plagiarized without permission. DeMille later adapted some of Belascos techniques such as the Cheat, a move wich many saw as revenge.



In 1913 DeMille entered the film industry. Directing dozens of silent films, including the first production by Paramount Pictures "The Squaw Man". Soon after he entered huge popularity during the late 1910's and 1920's he reached the high point of his career with movies such as "The Ten Commandments", and "The King Of Kings".



In 1923 DeMille directed the silent film "The Ten Commandments" and later in 1956 remade the film "The Ten Commandments". Which is one of the most financially successful films made, and is the film that is also a mini-series on TV during the Lent season.



DeMille has a legacy of his own. The anual Golden Globes Award "Cecil B DeMille Award" is an award that recognizes lifetime achivement in the film industry and has been awarded to such people as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Al Pacino, Cecil DeMille himself, Walt Disney, Bing Crosby, Clint Eastwood, and John Wayne just to name a few. He also has a Middle School in Long Beach, Cali. named after him, and a former building wich was at Chapman University and now resides at Marion Knotts Studios.

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