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ON SET WITH CECIL B. DEMILLE
“You are here to please me. Nothing else on Earth matters.” Attributed to Cecil B. while addressing a movie crew.
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THE FIRST TIME EDITH HEAD WORKED FOR CECIL B. – EDIBLE DRESSES
Edith Head worked on some 780 films either assisting or designing. I believe this silent film was one of the first – the ladies are part of some decadent jazz age tale and their dresses are bedecked...
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UNITED ARTISTS
The founders: Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith
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Norman Bel Geddes – design GOD
Babies, I’m feeling lazy. So this is my mute appreciation of a man from the past who shaped the present, design-wise. For further research contact the University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom...
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What my feet looked like when I decided to walk from my house to Cecil B....
Once upon a time, in the nineteen eighties, Cecil B.’s house still stood atop a hill in a neighborhood called Los Feliz, not far from our place in Beachwood Canyon. It was a beautiful spring day, the...
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Thomas Edison In The Obstacle Is The Way – Business Insider
At around 5:30 in the evening on Dec. 10, 1914, a massive explosion erupted in West Orange, New Jersey. Ten buildings in legendary inventor Thomas Edison’s plant, which made up more than half of the...
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What Would Cecil B. DeMille Wear?
“Remember you’re a star. Never go across the alley even to dump the garbage unless you’re dressed to the teeth.” Cecil B. This, by the way, is the costume that drove Edith Head to the brink. She knew...
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Cecil B. DeMille, a.k.a., Papa Hollywood…
While we credit David Wark Griffith with creating the visual language of filmmaking in America – the father of Hollywood as a cultural force, a purveyor of dreams, a life style – is Cecil B. DeMille...
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SELZNICK HOME AND OFFICE
The building was first owned by Ince, then Cecil B., then Selznick, then Desilu… Selznick must have liked the Colonial architectural style. Although, with those arches the home is more Regency or...
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FILM PIONEERS
Once upon a time I had a friend whose great-granny invested in little Tommy Edison’s electric company… That’s neither here nor there, but, in his time Edison’s became a multifaceted company and he ran...
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Vickie Lester gets homesick for Hollywood, and then again…
It was inevitable. I miss the light. The bold, constant, dazzling light. I understand now to the core of my being why Cecil B. and my ancestors made the move, and why there’s no place like it to make...
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Amid the strange ingredients of Hollywood…
…A world typified by the human swarm and the artistic abstraction — there is a figure unknown to the chants of promoters and glorifiers. His hand has rarely held the scepter of public acclaim, his brow...
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“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess....
Agnes de Mille by Maurice Seymour (1942) Smithsonian Institution © 1966 Agnes de Mille, daughter of William de Mille, was an American choreographer most well know for three works, Rodeo, Fall River...
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SELZNICK HOME AND OFFICE
The building was first owned by Ince, then Cecil B., then Selznick, then Desilu… Selznick must have liked the Colonial architectural style. Although, with those arches the home is more Regency or...
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FILM PIONEERS
Once upon a time I had a friend whose great-granny invested in little Tommy Edison’s electric company… That’s neither here nor there, but, in his time Edison’s became a multifaceted company and he ran...
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ON SET WITH CECIL B. DEMILLE
“You are here to please me. Nothing else on Earth matters.” Attributed to Cecil B. while addressing a movie crew.
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