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Biography of Cecil Blount DeMille
Name: Cecil Blount DeMille
Birth Date: August 12, 1881
Death Date: January 21, 1959
Place of Birth: Ashfield, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: director/producer
Cecil Blount DeMille
Considered one of the founders of Hollywood, film producer and director Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959) earned a place in moviemaking history with such religious epic films as The Ten Commandments and King of Kings.Although he is one of the most commercially successful film directors of all time, Cecil B. DeMille has for a long time been considered at best a director of mediocre quality. Still his place in the history of Hollywood movie making is central; in fact, more than anyone else, he deserves to be called the man who founded Hollywood. As Lewis Jacobs has said--as quoted in World Film Directors: "If in the artistic perspective of American Film History, Cecil B. DeMille is valueless; in the social history of films, it is impossible to ignore him."Religious and Theatrical BackgroundDeMille's father was split between wanting to be an actor and wanting to be an Episcopalian priest. It …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…directed by Alfred HitchcockThe times:1898: Spanish-American War1914-1918: World War I1939-1945: World War II1950-1953: Korean WarDeMille's contemporaries:George M. Cohan (1878-1942) American actor/writer/composerAlla Nazimova (1879-1945) Russian-born American actressJohn Barrymore (1882-1942) American actorFranklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) American PresidentLon Chaney (1883-1930) American actorDouglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) American actorJerome Kern (1885-1945) American composerSelected world events:1883: The Brooklyn Bridge opened1890: New York State introduced the electric chair for capital punishment1896: William Jennings Bryan made his "Cross of Gold" speech at the Democratic National Convention1912: Universal Pictures Corporation was created1929: U.S. Stock Market crash started Great Depression1947: A "Hollywood Black List" of alleged Communist sympathizers compiled at conference of studio executives1954: RCA introduced first color televisions sets Further Reading booksEric Smoodin, International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Nicholas Thomas, ed., St. James Press, 1991, pp. 204-207.Bogdanovich, Peter, "The Cowboy Hero and The American West ... as Directed by John Ford," in Fifty Who Made a Difference, ed. Lee Eisenberg, Esquire Press Book, 1984, pp. 347-348.
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