BYU Library - Special Collections

8 color photographs of childhood home of Cecil B. DeMille and its environs, Pompton, NJ. Negatives accompany the photographs.

12 letters and 1 telegram from DeMille to Lasky, 1 photograph.

Collection includes 6000 photographs (including oversize), 61 slides in molded case and viewing equipment, two glass plates, and one panoramic photograph. Biographical and personal publicity for DeMille Productions, Paramount Pictures and Famous Lasky Players.

Collection includes photographs of early Hollywood actors and personalities, as well as of the Milner family. Also includes filmstrips of caricatures from the film Land of the Pharos.

Correspondence, a scrapbook, newsclippings, telegrams, certificates, and other items. The materials deal with the motion picture industry in the United States and Milner's career as cinematagrapher. Some of the correspondence is with Cecil B. DeMille, the American motion picture producer. Also includes newspaper coverage of Milner's detention in the Soviet Zone of Germany in 1949.

Contains a photograph of the Red Sea scene from Cecil B. DeMille's movie Ten Commandments. Dated 1955.

Includes 905 nitrate negatives and 262 photographic prints of scene stills, publicity, and theater marquees for Cecil B. DeMille's motion picture, King of Kings (1927). Pierce acquired the collection at an unspecified time.

Black loose-leaf binder containing 149 8x10 inch black-and-white photographs of costume sketches for The Ten Commandments (1956). The sketches were done by Arnold Friberg, Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, John Jensen, and Ralph Jester. The binder was compiled by Head, who used it to check and maintain costume continuity for the production.