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Seller: Legends In History, Meadow Vista, CA, U.S.A.Legends In History
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Unbound. Condition: Fine. Canceled check from Mr. deMille's personal checking account. It is dated April 3, 1956 and is made out to CONSTANCE A. deMILLE & CECIL B. deMILLE for the amount of $228.90. The check is imprinted with Mr. deMille's name and home address and is from a Bank of America checking account. Cecil Blount DeMill…e August 12, 1881 - January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker. Between 1914 and 1958, he made a total of 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. His silent films included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants. DeMille was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, and grew up in New York City. He 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 full-length feature film shot in Hollywood. Its interracial love story made it commercially successful and it first publicized Hollywood as the home of the U.S. film industry. 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 commercial success; it held the Paramount revenue record for twenty-five years. He received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for his circus drama The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama. His last and best known film, The Ten Commandments (1956), also a Best Picture Academy Award nominee, is currently the eighth-highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation. In addition to his Best Picture Awards, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his film contributions, the Palme d'Or (posthumously) for Union Pacific (1939), a DGA Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. He was the first recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which was named in his honor. DeMille's reputation as a filmmaker has grown over time and his work has influenced many other films and directors. Constance Adams DeMille (April 27, 1874 - July 17, 1960) was an American actress and wife of filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille. Constance was born the daughter of Judge Fredrick Adams, New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals, and Ella Adams, Frederic's first wife. Constance was raised in East Orange, NJ. Judge Frederic Adams married a second time to a woman also named Ella. After graduating from school, Constance headed for the stage. She appeared briefly in Hearts are Trumps in Washington, DC and on Broadway, starring in the play, The Man on the Box, from October 1905 to January 1906. She appeared in only one film, playing the part of 'Mrs. Rowland' in Where the Trail Divides (1914). In 1920 while still associated with Famous Players-Lasky, her husband formed his own new company Cecil B. DeMille Productions with his lawyer, Constance and his sister in law Ella King Adams who also worked as his script reader. While performing, she met and later married Cecil Blount DeMille. The DeMilles first met in Washington, D.C. where she had joined the company of the play Hearts are Trumps. For Cecil this play marked his first appearance on stage and it had played for many months in NY before it went on the road. Her father was not enthusiastic about the match for his daughter, hence a small wedding at home. Their marriage lasted 56 years, until Cecil's death. The photographs shown in the listing are for display purposes only and not included in the sale. Signed by Author(s).
