Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (; August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American film director, producer and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. His silent films included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.
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| Full name at birth | Cecil Blount DeMille
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| Claim to fame | Hollywood Producer
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| Date of birth | 12 August 1881
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| Place of birth | Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA
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| Date of death | 21 January 1959
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| Age | 77 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Hollywood, California, USA
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| Cause of death | Heart failure
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| Resting place | Hollywood Forever Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
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| Occupation | Producer
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| Height | 5' 11" (180 cm)
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| Net worth | $10,000,000 USD
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| University | Pennsylvania Military College
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- Stuntman Jack Montgomery, who played a Christian cavalryman in DeMille's The Crusades (1935), recalled in an interview the tension that existed between DeMille and the dozens of stuntmen hired to do the battle scenes. They resented what they saw as DeMille's cavalier attitude about safety, especially as several stuntmen had been injured, and several horses had been killed, because of what they perceived to be DeMille's indifference. At one point DeMille was standing on the parapets of the castle, yelling through his megaphone at the "combatants" gathered below. One of them, who had been hired for his expertise at archery, finally tired of DeMille's screaming at them, notched an arrow into his bow and fired it at DeMille's megaphone, the arrow embedding itself into the device just inches from DeMille's head. He quickly left the set and didn't come back that day. He came back the next day, but for the rest of the picture, DeMille never yelled at the stuntmen again.
- He was a staunch supporter of the Republican Party.
- An active supporter of the practice of blacklisting real or alleged Communists, progressives and other "subversives", in 1952 DeMille attempted to get Joseph L. Mankiewicz removed as President of the Directors Guild because he would not endorse the DeMille-inspired loyalty oath. Directors George Stevens and John Ford managed block DeMille's efforts.
- The lifetime achievement award from the Hollywood Foreign Press (Golden Globes) is named after him.
- In still another story, DeMille was sitting in a Paramount executive's office, discussing a film he wanted to make. The climax of the film would be yet another huge battle sequence, requiring thousands of extras. When the studio executive complained that it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay all the extras needed for the battle, DeMille smiled wickedly. "I've got that covered," he said. "We'll use real bullets."
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