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Katherine DeMille. Actress: Black Gold. A dark, exotic beauty, Katherine DeMille was a fascinating screen presence in the 1930s and 1940s. She was born in Canada to a Scottish schoolteacher, Edward Gabriel Lester, and his Italian-Swiss wife, Cecile Bianca Bertha (Colani) Lester. Her father was killed in France during World War I, and her mother, who was terminally ill, traveled to California ...
For the full article, see Cecil B. DeMille. In 1913 he joined Jesse Lasky (1880–1958) and Samuel Goldwyn to form the forerunner of Paramount Communications. Their first venture, The Squaw Man (1914), was one of the first full-length feature films produced in Hollywood, and it established DeMille as a director.
Cecil B. DeMille's career as a director and producer spans five decades of motion pictures. After directing his first film, the 1914 silent The Squaw Man , DeMille went on to make seventy features, including westerns, adventures, musical comedies and war pictures before his death in 1959.
In 1914 Cecil B. DeMille wrote most of his early films but soon saw the need for a staff. He hired a well-known playwright to be both the company’s story editor and story department—his brother William de Mille. The brothers worked well together, crafting the series of hits that led the Lasky Company to become Paramount Pictures.
The Cecil B. DeMille Award is an honorary Golden Globe Award bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment". [1] [2] The HFPA board of directors selects the honorees from a variety of actors, directors, writers and producers who have made a significant mark in the film ...
“Cullen Tate, assistant to Cecil B. DeMille, has returned from two weeks in the east, where he has been photographing the men’s Tombs prison and the women’s prison at Auburn, New York.” – “Prison Scenes for Use in DeMille Film,” Exhibitors Herald, Vol. XIV, No. 19 (May 6, 1922) Reviews
Find the location of Cecil B. DeMille's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, read a biography, see related stars and browse a map of important places in their career. Born Aug. 12, 1881 in Ashfield, Mass..
