TV Guide: Cecil B. DeMille

Video: ShowBiz Minute: Crawford, Tyson, Scorsese

iVillage — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Nov. 13 - Man charged with trying to extort former supermodel Cindy Crawford and her husband; Mike Tyson faces jail if scuffle with photographer is deemed a violation; Martin Scorsese to receive Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes.

Video: King of Kings, The (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Magdalene

TCM — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Mary Magdalene (Jacqueline Logan) is furious when fellow courtesans tell her that Judas is following some preaching carpenter in this color sequence from Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings, 1927.

Video: Union Pacific - (Re-issue Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck fight to send the Union Pacific (1939) across America in Cecil B. DeMille's epic adventure.

Video: Globes 2009: Steven Spielberg Honored

Hulu — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

After 4 decades making films, the Hollywood Foreign Press honors Steven Spielberg with the Cecil B DeMille Award.

Video: 03/19/1953 - Cecil B. DeMille Wins Lone Oscar

Biography — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille wins the only Academy Award of his career when The Greatest Show on Earth takes home an Oscar for Best Picture. The film, a big-budget extravaganza about circus life, starred Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, and Cor

Video: The Story Of Dr. Wassell - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A Navy doctor fights to help wounded sailors escape the Japanese during World War II in Cecil B. DeMille's The Story Of Dr. Wassell (1944).

Video: Cleopatra (1934) - (Re-issue Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Claudette Colbert is the Queen of the Nile in Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra (1934).

Video: The Crusades - (1948 Re-release Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Cecil B. DeMille presents the story of The Crusades (1935) with Henry Wilcoxon as the Holy Land-bound Richard the Lion-Hearted.

Video: Solomon and Sheba - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

For his last movie, director King Vidor (The Fountainhead) got all Cecil B. DeMille in the biblical epic, Solomon and Sheba (1959).

Video: Sands of Oblivion

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

In 1923 legendary film director Cecil B. DeMille finished the epic film The Ten Commandments. After filming was completed, he bulldozed the sets into the Guadalupe Sand Dunes of the central California coast. His reasons for doing so were very mysterious. This story gives an explanation as to why he did it. There was actually a legitimate Egyptian artifact amongst the props but they didn't know which one was trapping the spirit of an Egyptian avenging god. Mysterious murders and accidents while making the film brings things back to the surface today and it starts all over again.

Video: Making Of The Ten Commandments

CinemaNow — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Host Sean MacLaughlin goes behind the scenes of Cecil B. DeMille's Biblical epic.

Video: Golden Chance

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The drama of a woman who should have changed husbands long before she did, The Golden Chance, almost forgotten today, is one of Cecil B. DeMille's superlative early efforts. Against her family's wishes, beautiful and well-bred Mary (Cleo Ridgeley) has married Steve Denby (H. B. Carpenter), a criminal lout whose alcoholism has reduced the couple to destitution in a one-room slum apartment. Mary finds work as dressmaker to a society woman (Edythe Chapman) who is organizing a dinner party to help her husband close a business deal with an eligible millionaire (Wallace Reid). Transformed like Cinderella, Mary substitutes for a guest who is unable to come at the last minute.

Video: Old Wives For New

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

In scene after scene, Old Wives for New (1918) must have startled its original audiences. The "old" wife, grown fat and slovenly, eats bonbons and reads the Bible while ignoring her family. The "new" wife is no innocent flower but a successful, independent businesswoman. An old roue leaves his own wife at home while he dallies with young gold diggers who have a most casual attitude toward their unconventional lifestyles. The film even suggests divorce as a possible solution to "irreconcilable differences" in marriage. This film so shocked Paramount's head, Adolph Zukor, that he was opposed to releasing it at all (but relented when a test screening proved it would make money). In fact, it created a sensation and led directly to the social comedies director Cecil B. DeMille made in the early 1920s. With this film DeMille closed the door on "the innocent years" and ushered in "the jazz age.

Video: Old Wives For New

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Don't Change Your Husband

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

In Don't Change Your Husband, Cecil B. DeMille's first film with Gloria Swanson, Leila Porter (Swanson) tires of her dull nouveau-riche husband (Elliot Dexter) who is inattentive, sloppy and an eater of green onions. She trades him for Schuyler Van Sutphen, a suave but two-timing playboy (Lew Cody), but when she learns Van Sutphen is having an affair with Nanette the maid (Julia Faye), she encourages her now-reformed husband to pursue and remarry her.

Video: Don't Change Your Husband

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Joan The Woman

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Legendary director Cecil B. DeMille takes on the historical saga of Joan of Arc in his first great spectacle. Following in the epic footsteps of D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation," DeMille's "Joan the Woman" was produced as a road-show special production with a huge budget for the time. The story follows a British officer in World War I who is inspired by a vision of Joan when he finds her decayed sword. The film then takes us back to her leadership of the French Army and eventual burning at the stake, complete with a cast of thousands, cinematic beauty and the imagination that DeMille would become famous for in this timeless historical spectacular.

Video: Joan The Woman

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Why Change Your Wife

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

As described by director Cecil B. DeMille in his autobiography, Why Change Your Wife? stars Gloria Swanson "as an exceedingly prim and proper wife whose virtues are her only vices and whose efforts to impose her tastes and perfectionism upon her husband cause her to lose him to another, more attractive woman, until at last the wife learns that being virtuous does not mean being dowdy and that being cultured is not inconsistent with being human."

Video: Why Change Your Wife

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500