When Cecil B. DeMille was set to direct a re-make of his 1938 swashbuckler The Buccaneer and suddenly became ill, his...
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Executive Producer
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1958
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The Buster Keaton Story is the sublimely inaccurate life story of immortal film comedian Buster Keaton, played by...
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1957
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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Director, Producer
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1956
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Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth is a lavish tribute to circuses, featuring three intertwining plotlines...
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Director, Producer
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1952
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A sequel to Bob Hope's 1948 box-office success The Paleface, 1952's Son of Paleface is a superior product in every way,...
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1952
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Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom....
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1950
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Director, Producer
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1949
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Director, Producer
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1947
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This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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1947
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Director, Producer
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1944
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Director, Producer
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1942
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In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He...
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1942
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...
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Director, Producer
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1940
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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Editor
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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Director, Producer
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1939
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Director, Producer
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1938
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Director, Producer
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1937
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Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the...
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1937
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The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD,...
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Director, Producer
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1935
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Director, Producer
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1934
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Cecil B. DeMille's least characteristic sound feature, Four Frightened People is a character study about a quartet of...
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Director, Producer
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1934
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Cecil B. DeMille's This Day and Age was perhaps the most Draconian entry in Hollywood's early-1930s "vigilante" film cycle....
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Director, Producer
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1933
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Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box...
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Director, Producer
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1932
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Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western...
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Director, Producer
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1931
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The second of Cecil B. DeMille's talkies (as well as his second for MGM), Madam Satan is an exercise in incoherence, but this...
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Director, Producer
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1930
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Filmed in 1929 and released early in 1930, Dynamite was Cecil B. DeMille's first all-talking feature. As one observer has...
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Director, Producer
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1930
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Completed as a silent film, Cecil B. DeMille's The Godless Girl was quickly converted into a part-talkie by the simple...
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Director, Producer
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1929
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Producer
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1928
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One of the most readily available features of the silent era, The Yankee Clipper is happily also one of the best. A pre-...
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Producer
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1927
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Director, Producer
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1927
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Producer
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1926
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One feels that if Cecil B. DeMille had been assigned to direct the one-character play Krapp's Last Tape, he'd have added...
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Director, Producer
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1926
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Presented by
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1926
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Judy Nichols (Leatrice Joy), a poor girl from Chicago, has decided she cannot marry without money. Her sweetheart, Ronald...
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Producer
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1925
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Cecil B. DeMille's century-hopping extravaganza The Road to Yesterday begins in the present (1925, that is). Wealthy...
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Director, Producer
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1925
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Producer
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1925
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Produced but not directed by Cecil B. DeMille, The Coming of Amos nevertheless has many earmarks of a typical DeMille film,...
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Producer
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1925
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Director, Producer
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1925
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Under the supervision of Cecil B. DeMille, character actor Alan Hale handled the directing chores in Wedding Song. DeMille...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1925
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Director, Producer
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1924
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While this Cecil B. DeMille production has many of the elements common to his pictures -- lavish, expensive sets and...
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Director, Producer
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1924
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Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45...
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Director, Producer
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1923
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No, this society drama is not related in any way, shape or form to the 1949 Katherine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy comedy. It's one...
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Director, Producer
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1923
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The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
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1923
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Even with its share of sumptuous sets and domestic mixups, this comedy-drama was not typical for director Cecil B. DeMille....
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Director, Producer
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1922
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1922
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Director, Producer
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1922
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Cecil B. DeMille's much-maligned cinemadaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's The Affairs of Anatol holds up better than its...
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Director, Producer
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1921
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Mary (Agnes Ayres) works as a seamstress for the wealthy Mallory family to support herself and her worthless husband Steve...
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Director, Producer
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1921
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Although this expensive drama was "suggested by" a short story, The Laurels and the Lady, by Leodard Merrick, one can't help...
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Director, Producer
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1921
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During the late teens and early '20s, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille reveled in much cinematic pomp and circumstance, mixing epic...
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Director, Producer
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1920
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One of the best of Cecil B. DeMille's sophisticated sex comedies of the silent era, Why Change Your Wife? hinges upon a...
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Director, Producer
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1920
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Director
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1919
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Don't let that title fool you: Male and Female is really James M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, as interpreted by...
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Director, Producer
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1919
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Director Cecil B. DeMille tones down his usual elegance and instead focuses on the drama of America during the Great War....
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Director, Producer
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1919
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During World War I, every director made at least one film about the battles going on in Europe, even Cecil B. DeMille. These...
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Director, Producer
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1918
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The Whispering Chorus was arguably the closest Cecil B. DeMille ever came to making an "art" picture. Stalwart DeMille...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1918
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Director, Producer
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1918
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The first of Cecil B. DeMille's series of sophisticated romantic comedy-dramas, Old Wives for New was adapted from a novel by...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1918
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We Can't Have Everything was at once a typical Cecil B. DeMille marital comedy and also a satire of the whole genre. Aware...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1918
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With the exception of Joan the Woman, which contained a "contemporary" subplot, The Woman God Forgot was Cecil B. DeMille's...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1917
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1917
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1917
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This typically overbaked Cecil B. DeMille opus takes place off the seacoast of Brittany. While ambling along the beach,...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1917
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One of the few opera divas to achieve success on the silent screen (due in part to her affable, non-diva temperament),...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1916
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Screenwriter
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1916
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1916
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A sweeping chronicle of the life and death of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orlean, this epic stands as one of director...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1916
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1916
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Director
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1916
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Though many of Cecil B. DeMille's earliest films were based on plays and novels, The Dream Girl was a complete original,...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1916
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In the years before he became known for his sexy domestic films and elaborate spectaculars, fledgling director Cecil B....
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1915
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During the brief "movie star" phase of his career, Broadway comedian Victor Moore appeared in several inconsequential...
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Screenwriter
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1915
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The hoary old David Belasco stage operetta is given the full DeMille treatment in this classic silent western starring...
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1915
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1915
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1915 was a big year for civil war films -- this powerful five-reeler was released around the same time as D.W. Griffith's...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1915
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Famed opera singer Geraldine Farrar had just recently achieved silent film stardom with Carmen (a part she had also sung on...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1915
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Bowery toughie Chimmie Fadden was the creation of New York Sun journalist E. W. Townsend. Chimmie proved popular enough with...
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1915
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Walter Crane makes a bet with a group of his fellow women-hating clubmen that he can take a pretty girl and cultivate her so...
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Director, Producer
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1915
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The grandfather of Betty Wright (Ina Claire) is willing to give her a substantial amount of money if she marries the son of a...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1915
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The Paramount version of Carmen had Cecil B. DeMille directing, prima donna Geraldine Farrar in her film debut, recreating a...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1915
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1915
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This Cecil B. DeMille picture (adapted from the novel by Eleanor M. Ingram) was the screen debut for French actress Rita...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1915
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1915
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1915
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The Golden Chance was the last of 12 (!) films directed in 1915 by Cecil B. DeMille. Scripted by DeMille and...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1915
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Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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Producer Jesse Lasky and stage impresario David Belasco teamed up for several films in the mid-teens and this tale of...
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1914
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Screenwriter
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1914
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1914
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Director
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1914
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This is the first film in which budding filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille received full credit as a director. Set in the wild...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1914
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Although this was only Cecil B. DeMille's fifth feature, it shows some of the qualities that would make his work famous in...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1914
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1914
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This early Cecil B. DeMille film is surprisingly simple and unpretentious. It's the story of small-town inhabitants Harvey...
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1914
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Although this was Cecil B. DeMille's third directorial effort, it was the first time he attempted it on his own, without the...
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1914
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If the larger-than-life approach to this complicated picture (based on the novel The Rose in the Ring by George Barr...
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Screenwriter
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1914
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This comedy drama involves the adventures of a cavalryman, Bob Warburton (Max Figman). Warburton's regiment saves a...
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Director
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1914
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