The Virginian (1946 film)
The Virginian is a 1946 American Western film directed by Stuart Gilmore and starring Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Sonny Tufts, and Barbara Britton.
Based on the Owen Wister novel of the same name, the film was adapted from the popular 1904 theatrical play Wister had collaborated on with playwright Kirke La Shelle.
" The Virginian" is about an eastern school teacher who comes to Medicine Bow in Wyoming and encounters life on the frontier.
The film is a remake of the 1929 movie with Gary Cooper and Walter Huston.
There have been several versions of the story, beginning with a 1914 film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and including a 1960s television series that bore little relation to the book other than the title.
The film was originally distributed by Paramount Pictures.
The Virginian (1923 film)
The Virginian( 1923) is a silent film based upon the Owen Wister novel" The Virginian" and adapted from the popular 1904 theatrical play Wister had collaborated on with playwright Kirke La Shelle.
The film stars Kenneth Harlan as the Virginian and Russell Simpson as Trampas and was directed by Tom Forman.
With the advent of talkies, the film was soon overshadowed by the 1929 motion picture" The Virginian" with Gary Cooper and Walter Huston.
Taking his Chance
Taking his Chance is a 1914 film from director Raymond Longford based on a poem by Henry Lawson.
It is considered a lost film.
The Virginian (1914 film)
The Virginian is a 1914 American silent western film based upon the novel" The Virginian" by Owen Wister.
The film was adapted from the successful 1904 theatre play Wister had collaborated on with playwright Kirke La Shelle.
" The Virginian" starred Dustin Farnum in the title role and was directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker.
Between 1914 and 1958, he made a total of 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 were more diverse in genre, among which included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.
De Mille began his career as a stage actor in 1900.
He later moved to writing and directing stage productions, some with Jesse Lasky, who was then a vaudeville producer.
DeMille's first film," The Squaw Man"( 1914), was also the first feature film shot in Hollywood.
Its interracial love story made it commercially successful and it first publicized Hollywood as the home of the U.S. film industry.
The continued success of his productions led to the founding of Paramount Pictures with Lasky and Adolph Zukor.
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.
De Mille directed" The King of Kings"( 1927), a biography of Jesus, which gained approval for its sensitivity and reached more than 800 million viewers.
" The Sign of the Cross"( 1932) is said to be the first sound film to integrate all aspects of cinematic technique.
" Cleopatra"( 1934) was his first film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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.
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.
He received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for his circus drama" The Greatest Show on Earth"( 1952), which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
His last and best known film," The Ten Commandments"( 1956), also a Best Picture Academy Award nominee, is currently the eighth- highest- grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation.
In addition to his Best Picture Awards, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his film contributions, the Palme d' Or( posthumously) for" Union Pacific"( 1939), a DGA Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
He was the first recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which was named in his honor.
DeMille's reputation as a filmmaker has grown over time and his work has influenced many other films and directors.
The Virginian (1929 film)
The Virginian is a 1929 American pre-Code Western film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, and Richard Arlen.
The film was based on the 1902 novel" The Virginian" by Owen Wister and adapted from the popular 1904 theatrical play Wister had collaborated on with playwright Kirke La Shelle.
" The Virginian" is about a good- natured cowboy who romances the new schoolmarm and has a crisis of conscience when he learns his best friend is involved in cattle rustling.
The film is well known for Cooper's line," If you wan na call me that —smile", in response to a cuss by the antagonist.
The Boer War (film)
The Boer War is a 1914 film, directed by George Melford about the Second Boer War.
Mamma Ebe
Mamma Ebe(" Mother Ebe") is a 1985 courtroom drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani.
It was entered into the main competition at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival, in which Barbara De Rossi won the Pasinetti Award for best actress.
Based on real events, the film was poorly received by critics.
Carlo Lizzani
Carlo Lizzani( 3 April 1922 – 5 October 2013) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic.
Mabel's Latest Prank
Mabel's Latest Prank is a 1914 film both starring and co-directed by Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett.

Question: Which film has the director died later, Mamma Ebe or The Virginian (1914 Film)?
Answer: Mamma Ebe