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Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 - January 21, 1959) was one of the most successful filmmakers during the first half of the 20th century. Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts to a Dutch father who was a lay Episcopalian minister and a Sephardic Jewish mother who was born in England, DeMille directed hundreds of silent films, including Paramount Pictures' first production: The Squaw Man (1914), before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such fi ...

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Cecil B. DeMille - Trivia

Cecil B. DeMille - Filmography As Director

Cecil B. DeMille - Bibliographies

Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., situated northwest of Downtown. Due to its fame and identity as the historical center of movie studios and stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used colloquially to refer to the American film industry. Today much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as Burbank and the Westside, but significant ancillary industries (such as editing, effe ...

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Hollywood, Los Angeles, California - History

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California - Modern Hollywood

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California - Runaways

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California - Hollywood area neighborhoods

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California - Education

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California - Landmarks and interesting spots

Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - Academy Honorary Award

The Academy Honorary Award is given irregularly by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards. In the early years of the academy, it was often used to reward significant achievements of the year that did not fit in existing categories. This subsequently led to several new categories. In recent years the academy has awarded ...

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Academy Honorary Award - List of Academy Honorary Award winners

Academy Honorary Award - 1920s

Academy Honorary Award - 1930s

Academy Honorary Award - 1940s

Academy Honorary Award - 1950s

Academy Honorary Award - 1960s

Academy Honorary Award - 1970s

Academy Honorary Award - 1980s

Academy Honorary Award - 1990s

Academy Honorary Award - 2000s

Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - Al Pacino

Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940 in The Bronx, New York, USA) is an American film actor. Pacino is the son of Salvatore Pacino (who was born in Italy) and Rose Gerard (the daughter of an Italian-born father and a New York-born mother of Italian descent). His parents divorced while Pacino was still a child. His grandparents originate from Corleone, Sicily. In the late 1960s, Pacino studied under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg, finding acting a therapeutic outlet in a youth which saw him depressed and so imp ...

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Al Pacino - Filmography

Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - August 12

August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 141 days remaining. It is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. It is also known as the "Glorious Twelfth" in the UK, as it marks the traditional start of the grouse shooting season. August 12 - Events. 490 BC - the Battle of Marathon, in which Athens defeated an invasion army of Persians, may have been fought on this date in the proleptic Julian calendar - but see 12 Septe ...

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August 12 - Events

August 12 - Births

August 12 - Deaths

August 12 - Holidays and observations

Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. The expression of approval is given, along with an Oscar Statuette and a chance for the director to speak, at an annual Academy Awards ceremony. All but twenty of the seventy-seven Oscars for best director (before 2006) were for films that also won the award for best picture. The Academy has selected one director from five nominees each year for the past seven decades ...

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Academy Award for Directing - 1920s

Academy Award for Directing - 1930s

Academy Award for Directing - 1940s

Academy Award for Directing - 1950s

Academy Award for Directing - 1960s

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Academy Award for Directing - 1980s

Academy Award for Directing - 1990s

Academy Award for Directing - 2000s

Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, is a list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to the Bible, was spoken by God to Moses on Mount Sinai and engraved on two stone tablets. They feature prominently in Judaism and Christianity. In Biblical Hebrew language they are termed עשרת הדברים (translit. Aseret ha-Dvarîm), and in Rabbinical Hebrew עשרת הדברות (translit. Aseret ha-Dibrot), both translatable as "the ten statements". The name decalogue is derived from the Greek name δέκα λόγοι or dekalogoi ("ten statements") found in the Septuag ...

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Ten Commandments - Preparations

Ten Commandments - God's name

Ten Commandments - Exodus 20/Deuteronomy 5

Ten Commandments - Written in stone

Ten Commandments - Breaking the first tablets

Ten Commandments - Second set

Ten Commandments - 10 Commandments or more?

Ten Commandments - Texts of the commandments

Ten Commandments - Jewish understanding

Ten Commandments - The ten statements

Ten Commandments - Jewish interpretation

Ten Commandments - Special status

Ten Commandments - Samaritan understanding

Ten Commandments - Christian understanding

Ten Commandments - Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christianity

Ten Commandments - Protestant Christianity

Ten Commandments - Typical Protestant view

Ten Commandments - Jehovah's Witnesses

Ten Commandments - Muslim understanding

Ten Commandments - Views of other faiths

Ten Commandments - Controversies

Ten Commandments - Sabbath day

Ten Commandments - Idolatry

Ten Commandments - Public monuments and controversy in the USA

Ten Commandments - Origins

Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand (February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982; first name pronounced (IPA) /aɪn/ (rhymes with 'mine')), born Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum, was best known for her philosophy of Objectivism and her novels We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged. Her philosophy and her fiction both emphasize, above all, her concepts of individualism, rational egoism ("rational self-interest"), and capitalism. Believi ...

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Ayn Rand - Biography

Ayn Rand - Early life

Ayn Rand - Major works

Ayn Rand - The Objectivist movement

Ayn Rand - Philosophical influences

Ayn Rand - Politics and House Committee on Un-American Activities testimony

Ayn Rand - Legacy

Ayn Rand - Controversy

Ayn Rand - Bibliography

Ayn Rand - Fiction

Ayn Rand - Nonfiction

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Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - Hollywood Los Angeles California

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Hollywood Los Angeles California - History

Hollywood Los Angeles California - Hollywood and the motion picture industry

Hollywood Los Angeles California - Modern Hollywood

Hollywood Los Angeles California - Runaways

Hollywood Los Angeles California - Hollywood area neighborhoods

Hollywood Los Angeles California - Education

Hollywood Los Angeles California - Landmarks and interesting spots

Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - John Wayne

John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), nicknamed "Duke," 1 was an American film actor whose career began in silent movies in the 1920s. He was a major star from the 1940s to the 1970s. He is most famous for his Westerns, but he also made films of various other kinds. He epitomised a certain kind of rugged individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring icon. John Wayne - Life and Career. John Wayne was born in Marion Robert MorrisonIncluding:

John Wayne - Life and Career

John Wayne - Character deaths

John Wayne - Filmography

John Wayne - Character quotes

John Wayne - Footnotes

Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - Chinatown Los Angeles California

Chinatown in Downtown Los Angeles, California, was originally located less than a mile from its current location. Chinatown Los Angeles California - Southern California Chinatowns. Main article: Southern California Chinatowns There are now other flourishing satellite Chinese communities in the Greater Los Angeles Area that are not officially classified as "Chinatowns", but are well known, such as Monterey Park, where over 60 percent of the population is Asian American, and San Gabriel (where t ...

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Chinatown Los Angeles California - Southern California Chinatowns

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Chinatown Los Angeles California - Streets

Chinatown Los Angeles California - New ethnic Chinese immigrants

Chinatown Los Angeles California - Businesses

Chinatown Los Angeles California - Little Joe's

Chinatown Los Angeles California - Rush Hour

Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - Cleopatra VII of Egypt

Cleopatra VII Philopator (January 69 BC – August 12, 30 BC) was queen of ancient Egypt, the last member of the Ptolemaic dynasty and hence the last Hellenistic ruler of Egypt. Although many other Egyptian Queens shared the name, she is usually known as simply Cleopatra, and all of her similarly named predecessors have been mostly forgotten. As co-ruler of Egypt with her father (Ptolemy XII Auletes), her brother/husband Ptolemy XIV, and later her son Caesarion, Cleopatra survived a coup engineered by her brother's court ...

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Cleopatra VII of Egypt - Early life and name

Cleopatra VII of Egypt - The race debate

Cleopatra VII of Egypt - Cleopatra in art film TV and literature

Cleopatra VII of Egypt - Films about Cleopatra

Cleopatra VII of Egypt - Paintings of Cleopatra

Cleopatra VII of Egypt - Notes

Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - D. W. Griffith

David Llewelyn Wark Griffith, commonly known as D.W. Griffith (January 22, 1875–July 23, 1948) was an American film director. He is best known for his film The Birth of a Nation. D. W. Griffith - Biography. Griffith was born in La Grange, Oldham County, Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a Confederate Army colonel and Civil War hero. He began his career as a hopeful playwright but met with little success. He then became an actor. Finding his way into the motion picture business, he s ...

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D. W. Griffith - Biography

D. W. Griffith - Achievements

D. W. Griffith - Controversy

D. W. Griffith - Legacy

D. W. Griffith - Selected filmography

Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter on October 4, 1923, although the year is usually given as 1924), is an American film actor noted for heroic roles, and his long involvement in political issues. Charlton Heston - Early career. Heston was born in Evanston, Illinois to Lilla Charlton and Russell Whitford Carter. Before he was 10 his parents divorced. Some years later, his mother married Chester Heston. The new family moved to well-off Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, ...

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Charlton Heston - Early career

Charlton Heston - Film career

Charlton Heston - Off screen

Charlton Heston - Political beliefs

Charlton Heston - Trivia

Charlton Heston - Quotes

Charlton Heston - Books

Charlton Heston - Filmography

Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - Carmen

Carmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Meilhac and Halévy, based on the novel by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was premiered at the Opéra Comique of Paris on March 3, 1875. For a year after its premiere, it was considered a failure; denounced by critics as 'immoral' and 'superficial'. Today, it is one of the world's most popular operas^Including:

Carmen - Dramatic Elements

Carmen - Musical Elements

Carmen - Dialogue versus Recitative

Carmen - Characters

Carmen - Musical Pieces

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Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - California State University Long Beach

California State University, Long Beach (also known as Long Beach State, Cal State Long Beach, CSULB, LBSU or The Beach) is the second largest campus of the California State University system and the third largest university in the state of California. It is located in Long Beach, California, at the southern coastal tip of Los Angeles County. Calif ...

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California State University Long Beach - History

California State University Long Beach - Puvunga

California State University Long Beach - Academics

California State University Long Beach - Impacted Majors

California State University Long Beach - Student Life

California State University Long Beach - Associated Students

California State University Long Beach - KKJZ 88.1 FM

California State University Long Beach - Campus

California State University Long Beach - Athletics

California State University Long Beach - Alma Mater

California State University Long Beach - Notable faculty

California State University Long Beach - Notable Alumni

Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - 1959

1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It is also a song by The Sisters of Mercy on the album Floodland. 1959 - Events. 1959 - January. January 1 - Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin. January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance. January 2 - CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Backstage ...

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Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - Blazing Saddles

Blazing Saddles is a Warner Bros. 1974 comedy directed by Mel Brooks and starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. The film was written (in what Brooks called Your Show of Shows-style) by a team of writers, namely Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Alan Uger; it was based on Bergman's story and draft. Brooks appears in multiple supporting roles, including Governor Lepetomane and a Yiddish-speaking Indian Chief. Slim Pickens, Alex Karras, David Huddleston, and Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn and Harvey Korma ...

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Blazing Saddles - Plot

Blazing Saddles - Featured Cast

Blazing Saddles - Awards

Blazing Saddles - Trivia

Blazing Saddles - Quotes

Blazing Saddles - Yiddish-speaking Indian

Blazing Saddles - See Also

Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - 1910s

1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1910s - Events and trends. The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginings during the second half of the 19th Century. The conservative lifestyles during the first half of the decade, as well as the legacy of military alliances, would forever be changed by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne, on 28 June 1914. The ...

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1910s - Events and trends

1910s - Technology

1910s - Science

1910s - War peace and politics

1910s - Culture religion

1910s - Others

1910s - World leaders

1910s - Entertainers

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Cecil B. DeMille: Encyclopedia - Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. As is the customary practice in Wikipedia for listing Oscar results, the winner of the award for that year is listed first, followed by the runners-up. The films below are listed with their production year, so fo ...