[138] Despite the criticism, it was Paramount's highest-grossing film of the year. [11] Their most well known collaborations include The Wife, Lord Chumley, The Charity Ball, and Men and Women. [14] When they married, Beatrice converted to Episcopalianism. Despite his loss, DeMille continued to lobby for the Taft–Hartley Act, which passed. He debuted as an actor on February 21, 1900, in the play Hearts Are Trumps at New York's Garden Theater. [71] Apfel filmed most of The Squaw Man due to DeMille's inexperience; however, DeMille learned quickly and was particularly adept at impromptu screenwriting as necessary. [89] DeMille was maintained as director-general and Goldwyn became chairman of the board. They struggled to adapt the play from the stage to the set. Näistä kalliista eeppisistä elokuvista menestynein oli Jeesuksen elämästä kertova The King of Kings (1927). Her acceptance speech at 70th Golden Globe Awards became one of the highlights of the evening. [294] During the Apollo 11 mission, Buzz Aldrin refers to himself in one instance as "Cecil B. DeAldrin", as a humorous nod to DeMille. DeMille was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, and grew up in New York City. [9] He worked as a playwright, administrator, and faculty member during the early years of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, established in New York City in 1884. A censorship board called the Hays Code was established. [1][2] The HFPA board of directors selects the honorees from a variety of actors, directors, writers and producers who have made a significant mark in the film industry. [148] Again, 1952's The Greatest Show on Earth became Paramount's highest-grossing film to that point. [91] Although DeMille considered enlisting in World War I, he stayed in the United States and made films. [106] [7] Henry deMille, whose ancestors were of Dutch-Belgian descent, was a North Carolina-born dramatist, actor, and lay reader in the Episcopal Church. In the audience was Charles Frohman who would cast DeMille in his play Hearts are Trumps, DeMille's Broadway debut. However, this version is actually a 1918 re-release. [231] In the early age of cinema, DeMille differentiated the Lasky Company from other production companies due to the use of dramatic, low-key lighting they called "Lasky lighting" and marketed as "Rembrandt lighting" to appeal to the public. [102] Many of his films featured scenes in two-color Technicolor. During the French New Wave, critics began to categorize certain filmmakers as auteurs such as Howard Hawks, John Ford, and Raoul Walsh. [186] It is difficult to typify DeMille's films into one specific genre. Ten Golden Globe nominations, three wins: "Washington’s achievements as a performer and a filmmaker have earned him seven Golden Globe Award nominations in two categories, resulting in two wins. [186] DeMille's films Male and Female, Why Change Your Wife?, and The Affairs of Anatol can be retrospectively described as high camp and are categorized as "early DeMille films" due to their particular style of production and costume and set design. Unlike the other children the DeMille's adopted, John was never told about his birth parents. By 1930, DeMille had perfected his film style of mass-interest spectacle films with Western, Roman, or Biblical themes. [179] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. The film was considered a "masterpiece" and surpassed the quality of other sound films of the time. DeMille claimed that MacPherson was not a good writer, but she received credit in his films because she gave him many ideas for the screenplays. Additionally, DeMille's epics such as The Crusades influenced Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky. According to Richard Birchard, DeMille's weakened state during production may have led to the film being received as uncharacteristically substandard. Consequently, he focused his efforts on his films' visuals. The mistress could not keep the boy due to her tuberculosis. [288][note 16] Donated by the Cecil B. DeMille Foundation in 2004, the moving image collection of Cecil B. DeMille is held at the Academy Film Archive and includes home movies, outtakes, and never-before-seen test footage. However, DeMille's second remake at MGM in 1931 would be a failure. [79][note 3], Cecil B. DeMille's second film credited exclusively to him was The Virginian. [139] DeMille was anti-communist and abandoned a project in 1940 to film Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls due to its communist themes despite the fact he had already paid $100,000 for the rights to the novel. DeMille did not like the first draft of the biography, saying that he thought the person portrayed in the biography was an "SOB"; he said it made him sound too egotistical. [303] From the film industry, DeMille received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the Academy Awards in 1953,[304] and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Directors Guild of America Award the same year. His first biblical epic, The Ten Commandments (1923), was both a critical and commercial success; it held the Paramount revenue record for twenty-five years. [110] After the release of DeMille's The Godless Girl, silent films in America became obsolete and DeMille was forced to shoot a shoddy final reel with the new sound production technique. He also toured with the Standard Opera Company, but there are few records to indicate DeMille's singing ability. [22][note 2] DeMille's parents operated a private school in town and attended Christ Episcopal Church. The project was later completed by DeMille's former assistant director. [233], DeMille was interested in art and his favorite artist was Gustave Doré; DeMille based some of his most well-known scenes on the work of Doré. After more than thirty years in film production, DeMille reached a pinnacle in his career with Samson and Delilah (1949), a biblical epic which became the highest-grossing film of 1950. [3] A year later in 1953, the award was presented to producer Walt Disney.[4]. [132] [note 7], In 1939, DeMille's Union Pacific was successful through DeMille's collaboration with the Union Pacific Railroad. [269] DeMille was immortalized in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard when Gloria Swanson spoke the line: "All right, Mr. DeMille. [165] This film would be his last. He donated. DeMille wanted to film in Canada; however, due to budget constraints, the film was instead shot in Oregon and Hollywood. Prêmio Cecil B. DeMille 1952 - Prêmio honorário Melhor diretor 1952 - The Greatest Show on Earth: Festival de Cannes; Palma de Ouro 1939 - Union Pacific: Nascido em uma família ligada à arte, seu pai foi um professor, ator e dramaturgo, enquanto sua mãe, também uma professora, ensinava inglês na Brooklyn Academy Lockwood. [130] While DeMille was host, the show had forty million weekly listeners, gaining DeMille an annual salary of $100,000. Along with biblical and historical narratives, he also directed films oriented toward "neo-naturalism", which tried to portray the laws of man fighting the forces of nature. Farnum chose $250 per week. He would speak to the entire set, sometimes enormous with countless numbers of crew members and extras, via a microphone to maintain control of the set. [60] As director-general, DeMille's job was to make the films. Several Paramount contractees were accused of rape, murder, and drug addiction. [145] After working on Reap the Wild Wind, in 1944, he was the master of ceremonies at the massive rally organized by David O. Selznick in the Los Angeles Coliseum in support of the Dewey–Bricker ticket as well as Governor Earl Warren of California. [184] Similar to Belasco, DeMille's theatre was revolved around entertainment, rather than artistry. After the death of William deMille, DeMille revealed to Richard DeMille that William was his father and he had been born to William and a mistress. [16] As a child, DeMille created an alter-ego called "Champion Driver", a Robin Hood-like character, evidence of his creativity and imagination. [40] Another unperformed play he wrote was Son of the Winds, a mythological Native American story. Cecil B. DeMille nel trailer de I dieci comandamenti (1956) Oscar onorario 1950 Cecil B. DeMille, nome completo Cecil Blount DeMille (Ashfield, 12 agosto 1881 – Los Angeles, 21 gennaio 1959), è stato un regista, produttore cinematografico e montatore statunitense. [48] DeMille wrote another play originally called Sergeant Devil May Care which was renamed The Royal Mounted. [169] DeMille attended the Santa Barbara premiere of The Buccaneer in December 1958. [138] Critics were impressed with the visuals but found the scripts dull, calling it DeMille's "poorest Western". [58], Desiring a change of scene, Cecil B. DeMille, Jesse Lasky, Sam Goldfish (later Samuel Goldwyn), and a group of East Coast businessmen created the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company in 1913 over which DeMille became director-general. Cecil B. DeMille, cirka 1920. Eight times a Golden Globe nominee, winner twice, both times as a screenwriter, for. [37] One of DeMille's affairs was with his screenwriter Jeanie MacPherson. [66] With no knowledge of filmmaking, DeMille was introduced to observe the process at film studios. It has 700 guest rooms. [17] The family lived in Washington, North Carolina,[18] until Henry built a three-story Victorian-style house for his family in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey; they named this estate "Pamlico". DeMille adored the art of Groesbeck, even hanging it above his fireplace, but film staff found it difficult to convert his art into three-dimensional sets. Then, he would help writers construct a script. [72] He made his first film run sixty minutes, as long as a short play. DeMille recalled that this church was the place where he visualized the story of his 1923 version of The Ten Commandments.[24]. DeMille's depiction of on screen immorality came under fire, likely due to the scandalous film The Affairs of Anatol. [227] In order to attract a high-class audience, DeMille based many of his early films on stage melodramas, novels, and short stories. [263], DeMille was respected by his peers, yet his individual films were sometimes criticized. His poor physical condition upon his return home affected the production of his 1922 film Manslaughter. DeMille developed a plan with his doctor to allow him to continue directing while reducing his physical stress. Aufgenommen werden können Artikel über: Werke dieser Person sowie deren Adaptionen durch andere Künstler; Hauptbezugspersonen (nahe Familienangehörige, Lebensgefährten, weitere Personen mit herausragender biografischer Bedeutung) die biografischen Gedenkstätten (z. [33] They had met in a theater in Washington D.C. while they were both acting in Hearts Are Trumps. The actual parting of the sea was created by releasing 360,000 gallons of water into a huge water tank split by a U-shaped trough, overlaying it with film of a giant waterfall that was built on the Paramount backlot, and playing the clip backwards. Sus padres, Henry Churchill DeMille (1853-1893), episcopaliano, y Matilda Beatrice Samuel (1853-1923), judía de ascendencia alemana, se dedicaban a escribir obras de teatro. [271], As a filmmaker, DeMille was the aesthetic inspiration of many directors and films due to his early influence during the crucial development of the film industry. A Hollywood Foreign Press Association róla nevezte el a Golden Globe életműdíjat: Cecil B. DeMille-életműdíj. His silent era films often included the "battle of the sexes" theme due to the era of women's suffrage and the enlarging role of women in society. After being, "A Renaissance woman who acts (comedy and drama), dances, sings, and writes about her spiritual wanderings, always ready to go out on a limb. [81] The most successful films during the beginning of the Lasky Company were Brewster's Millions (co-directed by DeMille), Rose of the Rancho, and The Ghost Breaker. 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