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Cecil B. DeMille

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Cecil B. DeMille Fast Facts:

Legendary Hollywood film director and producer famed today for his Biblical epics.
Began his career as a stage director before he was hired by Jesse L. Lasky for his Lasky Feature Play Company. The company eventually evolved in Paramount Pictures.
Adopted son Richard is really his biological nephew; Richard was born out of wedlock to William C. DeMille, Cecil's brother.
One of the original founders of the Screen Directors Guild.
Had a cameo appearance in the film Sunset Boulevard; one of the film's most famous lines is "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup."
Defied convention by hiring actor Edward G. Robinson and composer Elmer Bernstein, both part of the Communist blacklist of the 1950s, to work on the film The Ten Commandments.
Made four remakes of his own movies, including two of the same movie, The Squaw Man.

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