Cecil B. DeMille
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 Cecil B. DeMille facts

• Between 1913 and 1956, he made seventy features, both silent and sound films
• He is acknowledged as a founding father of the Hollywood film industry, and the most commercially successful producer-director in cinema history
• His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship
• He made silent films of every genre: social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants
• DeMille began his career as a stage actor in 1900
• He later moved to writing and directing stage productions, some with Jesse Lasky, who was then a vaudeville producer
• DeMille's first film, The Squaw Man (1914), was also the first feature film shot in Hollywood
• Its interracial love story made it a phenomenal hit and it "put Hollywood on the map
• " The continued success of his productions led to the founding of Paramount Pictures with Lasky and Adolph Zukor
• His first biblical epic, The Ten Commandments (1923), was both a critical and financial success; it held the Paramount revenue record for twenty-five years