biography/memoirs

Item Description

Cecil B. DeMille made a total of 70 features, 1914 and 1958, and is acknowledged as a founding father of the cinema of the United States and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship.

This book is an informal, humorous and intimate view into that historic life and work. 

DeMille 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 most famous film, The Ten Commandments (1956), also a Best Picture Academy Award nominee, is currently the seventh-highest-grossing film of all time. In addition to his Best Picture Award, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his film contributions, the Palme d'Or (posthumously) for Union Pacific, a DGA Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which was later named in his honor.

Contents:

President Garfield ate some toast --
David Belasco was practically a member of the family --
Mother's energy and resourcefulness --
We were married August 16, 1902 --
Da Vinci ... Kircher ... Newton --
Have you ever had to sit still --
Months before, in an unheard-of town --
I am an "ex-victim of Zukor's voracity" --
Today's dispatches from Cape Canaveral --
"Disgusting debauchery" --
The Arbuckle scandal had broken --
" ... A man by the name of Milbank ..." --
Shantytowns of old tin --
I voted for Franklin D. Roosevelt --
When a man nears sixty --
Anti-semitism was the first major problem --
"You won't call it The Ten Commandments, of course ..."

Used - very good.  No dust jacket

Published 1960.  465 pages. 24 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, portraits. 9 x 6 x 2".  Hardback

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