Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American movie 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.Eyman 2010, pp. 494–496, 500.

 References 

 Other websites 

 Bibliography of books and articles about Demille  via UC Berkeley Media Resources Center



 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 Pierce 
 Official Cecil B. DeMille Site
 DeMille Studio Museum also known as the Lasky-DeMille Barn, run by Hollywood Heritage.
 DeMille celebrates his last birthday with Mary 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 record 
 DeMille, 1900 Census 
 1910 Census , 1920 Census 
 1930 Census 
  1942 World War II Draft Registrations .

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