Cecil B DeMilleAKA:
Cecil Blount de Mille
Nationality:
American Birthdate:
08/12/1881 Birthplace:
Ashfield, Massachusetts Death Date:
01/21/1959 Celeb News
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biography
As the ace director in the mid-1910s for Famous Players-Lasky, a company he had a hand in creating, DeMille was a crucial figure in the early development of the classic Hollywood narrative filmmaking style. Although less critically revered than D.W. Griffith, DeMille actually played a more important role in shaping the structure of the Hollywood system.One of DeMille's most influential films of the 1910s was "The Cheat". Released the same year (1915) as "The Birth of a Nation", "The Cheat" was instrumental in developing the rules of classic Hollywood filmmaking. This melodrama is the story of
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milestones
Year
Milestone
1900
Broadway acting debut in "Hearts Are Trumps"
Member of the Standard Opera Company as director-actor
1907
Acted for David Belasco
1910
Made general manager of mother's DeMille Play Company
1913
Formed motion picture firm Lasky Feature Play Company with Jesse L. Lasky, Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn) and Arthur Friend
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