Director Cecil B. DeMille epitomized the film epic and Holly-wood's "Golden Age." From the 1910s through the 1950s, he was able to anticipate public taste and gauge America's changing moods. He is best known for his...

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 22, 1959) was a successful American filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century, known for the flamboyance and showsmanship of his...

University Wire 08-29-2000 (The Daily Universe) (U-WIRE) PROVO, Utah -- Not many students realize that the special collections archive of Brigham Young University houses the ten commandments. These particular commandments were never the property of Moses. Cecil B. DeMille, one of Hollywood's most respected...

This ambitious study seeks to link the films of Cecil B. de Mille's early years at Famous Players-Lasky to a wider area than the development of film as an art. It demonstrates how the concepts of performance, spectacle, and consumerism relate to cultural...

“We just thought the Ten Commandments were a great thing to hang a bunch of stories on,” said David Wain of the new feature film The Ten, which he directed and co-wrote. Hey, that’s what Cecil B. DeMille said! Mr. Wain’s version, a comedy, consists...

A truly international lineup of films and performers was in contention at Monday night's Golden Globes, with "Babel," "The Queen," "The Last King of Scotland" and "Borat" competing in the run-up to the Academy Awards.Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Babel," a saga of families on three continents...

Cecil B. DeMille is both celebrated and derided for his overall depiction of the "new woman," a development resulting from the rise of consumer culture in the late nineteenth century. In this increasingly commodity-driven society, women increasingly moved into the public sphere in search of freedom and discovery at the risk of their own reputations and their families' social position. This is notably brought out in DeMille's most famous film "The Cheat," in which the female protagonist