Cecil b demille most successful movie

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an Americanmovie director. He was an Academy Award-winning producer of both silent and sound movies. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies. His first movies were The Squaw Man and Joan the Woman. Among his best-known films are Cleopatra, Samson and Delilah; The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture; and The Ten Commandments, which was his last and most successful movie.

Personal life and death

DeMille married Constance Adams on August 16, 1902 and had one child, Cecilia. The couple adopted Katherine Lester in the early 1920s. She married Anthony Quinn. They also adopted two sons, John and Richard. DeMille suffered a near fatal heart attack in 1956 during the shooting in Egypt of The Ten Commandments. He never fully recovered. He died on January 21, 1959 of heart failure. He rests in Hollywood Forever Cemetery). At the time of his death, he was planning to direct a movie about space travel. He also wanted to do a movie about the Biblical Book of Revelation.^[1]

References

Other websites

• Cecil B. DeMille on IMDb
• Bibliography of books and articles about Demille via UC Berkeley Media Resources Center
• Cecil B. DeMille at the TCM Movie Database
• Cecil B. DeMille at the Internet Broadway Database
• Works by or about Cecil B. DeMille in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Obituary, NY Times, January 22, 1959, Cecil De Mille, 77, Pioneer of Movies, Dead in Hollywood
• Costs and Grosses for the Early Films of Cecil B. DeMille essay with detailed financial breakdowns by David PierceArchived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
• Official Cecil B. DeMille Site
• DeMille Studio Museum also known as the Lasky-DeMille Barn, run byHollywood Heritage.
• DeMille celebrates his last birthday withMary Pickford and Bob Hope and cake & sword 1958
• Bibliography
• DeMille page at Corbis
• Newsweek, Sept. 2010, How Cecil B. DeMille Created Modern Hollywood
• Cecil B. DeMille's birth recordArchived 2012-01-18 at the Wayback Machine
• DeMille, 1900 CensusArchived 2012-01-19 at the Wayback Machine
• 1910 CensusArchived 2012-01-19 at the Wayback Machine, 1920 CensusArchived 2012-01-18 at the Wayback Machine
• 1930 CensusArchived 2012-01-18 at the Wayback Machine
• 1942 World War II Draft RegistrationsArchived 2012-01-18 at the Wayback Machine.