DeMille, Cecil B. (Cecil Blount), 1881-1959
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1881 - 1959
Biographical History
Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959) was an American motion picture producer and director, considered the archetype of the American film mogul. His 70 films reflect changing American tastes and values, and he was particularly noted for his multimillion-dollar spectacles.
Cecil B. DeMille was born on August 12, 1881 in Ashfield, Massachusetts to Henry Churchill de Mille and Matilda Beatrice Samuel de Mille. DeMille started acting on Broadway in 1900, and by 1913 he joined a film studio partnership which would eventually become Paramount Pictures. DeMille had a long and storied career as a filmmaker and directed several epic films, such as the Ten Commandments (1956). DeMille died on January 21, 1959, in Hollywood, California.
Citation:
His The Royal ...LC data base, 10/11/85 (hdg.: DeMille, Cecil Blount, 1881-1959; usage: Cecil B. DeMille); LC manual auth. cd. (also shows usage: Cecil B. De Mille)
Wikipedia, Sept. 16, 2010 (Cecil Blount DeMille; b. Aug. 12, 1881 in Ashfield, Mass.; d. Jan. 21, 1959 in Hollywood, Calif.; American film director and producer)
Turner Classic Movies database, Oct. 7, 2010 (Cecil B. DeMille Productions; est. 1921; founded by Cecil B. DeMille)
Empire of dreams, 2010: p. 212 (Cecil B. DeMille Pictures Corporation; founded by Cecil B. DeMille)
Found in 644 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and production records, 1916
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series of 20 boxes contains material from 1913, the beginning of DeMille's motion picture career, to 1924. The files are arranged chronologically and within each year alphabetically by film title.Production files often contain treatments, play scripts, tinting guides, scenarios, music scores, contracts, financial statements, story files, story contest submissions, anc censorship notes. The series concludes with the files of story editor Ella King Adams. The films of this...
Dates:
1916
Correspondence and production records, 1918
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series of 20 boxes contains material from 1913, the beginning of DeMille's motion picture career, to 1924. The files are arranged chronologically and within each year alphabetically by film title.Production files often contain treatments, play scripts, tinting guides, scenarios, music scores, contracts, financial statements, story files, story contest submissions, anc censorship notes. The series concludes with the files of story editor Ella King Adams. The films of this...
Dates:
1918
Correspondence and production records, 1919
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 7
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series of 20 boxes contains material from 1913, the beginning of DeMille's motion picture career, to 1924. The files are arranged chronologically and within each year alphabetically by film title.Production files often contain treatments, play scripts, tinting guides, scenarios, music scores, contracts, financial statements, story files, story contest submissions, anc censorship notes. The series concludes with the files of story editor Ella King Adams. The films of this...
Dates:
1919
Correspondence and production records, 1922
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 10
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series of 20 boxes contains material from 1913, the beginning of DeMille's motion picture career, to 1924. The files are arranged chronologically and within each year alphabetically by film title.Production files often contain treatments, play scripts, tinting guides, scenarios, music scores, contracts, financial statements, story files, story contest submissions, anc censorship notes. The series concludes with the files of story editor Ella King Adams. The films of this...
Dates:
1922
Correspondence and production records, 1925
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 13
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series of 20 boxes contains material from 1913, the beginning of DeMille's motion picture career, to 1924. The files are arranged chronologically and within each year alphabetically by film title.Production files often contain treatments, play scripts, tinting guides, scenarios, music scores, contracts, financial statements, story files, story contest submissions, anc censorship notes. The series concludes with the files of story editor Ella King Adams. The films of this...
Dates:
1925
Correspondence, Miscellaneous, 1889-1978
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 12 Sub-Series 50
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Found in ths series of 261 boxes are files relating to the activities of DeMille Productions, beginning in 1916. They include financial records and ledgers from 1916 to 1952. The extensive correspondence fields (1922-1959) are arranged chronologically, and then alphabetically within each year. The original order maintained in these files often includes years other than those indicated by the file heading. Files from preceding years were occasionally brought froward for reference or for...
Dates:
1889-1978
Correspondence--miscellaneous, 1951-1964, 1928-1965
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 6 Sub-Series 20
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Identified by DeMille as "Personal," this group of 196 boxes begins with 22 boxes dealing with the research and writing of the posthumously published The Autobiography of Cecil B. DeMille (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959), edited by Donald Hayne. The files are arranged chronologically by year, and items within each year are arranged alphabetically by subject or name. Over time, the organization of some of the files deteriorated into groups of unrelated records. Therefore, files...
Dates:
1928-1965
Critical response
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 6 Sub-Series 13
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
In 1932 DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures after an eight-year absence. There he set up his own production entity know to those on his Paramount lot as the DeMille Unit. This series is the largest single group of material in the DeMille Archives, numbering 450 boxes. It is organized into two main groups: General Correspondence and Motion Picture Production Files.General Correspondence is arranged chronologically, and then alphabetically within each year by individual,...
Dates:
1927-1936
Critical response
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 7 Sub-Series 12
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
In 1932 DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures after an eight-year absence. There he set up his own production entity know to those on his Paramount lot as the DeMille Unit. This series is the largest single group of material in the DeMille Archives, numbering 450 boxes. It is organized into two main groups: General Correspondence and Motion Picture Production Files.General Correspondence is arranged chronologically, and then alphabetically within each year by individual,...
Dates:
1934-1938
Critical response
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 8 Sub-Series 18
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
In 1932 DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures after an eight-year absence. There he set up his own production entity know to those on his Paramount lot as the DeMille Unit. This series is the largest single group of material in the DeMille Archives, numbering 450 boxes. It is organized into two main groups: General Correspondence and Motion Picture Production Files.General Correspondence is arranged chronologically, and then alphabetically within each year by individual,...
Dates:
1906-1939