Cinema Corporation of America Collection 1925-1981 1925-1932

DeMille, Cecil B. (Cecil Blount), 1881-1959

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Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959) was an American motion picture producer and director, considered the archetype of the American film mogul. His 70 films reflect changing American tastes and values, and he was particularly noted for his multimillion-dollar spectacles. DeMille was born on August 12, 1881 to Henry Churchill de Mille and Matilda Beatrice Samuel de Mille. DeMille started acting on Broadway in 1900 and by 1913 he joined a film studio partnership which would eventually become Paramount Pi...

Created by Alan F. Martin, father of the donor Robert Martin.

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In 1916, American motion-picture director and producer Cecil B. DeMille became "director general" of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, the nucleus of what would soon become Paramount Pictures. According to DeMille archivist James D'Arc at Brigham Young University's Film Music Archives, DeMille, in early 1922, terminated his ties with Famous Players-Lasky, purchased the Ince Studio in Culver City, California, and formed his own production unit, Cecil B. DeMille Productions, Inc. ...

Martin, Alan F.

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Logan, Jacqueline

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Cecil B. DeMille Productions, Inc.

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Cecil B. DeMille Productions (est. 1921) was a motion picture production company in California. From the guide to the Cecil B. DeMille Productions records, circa 1932-1959, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Cinema Corporation of America.

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The Cinema Corporation of America was organized in 1925 as a holding company that owned the stock of the Producer's Distributing Corporation and a new subsidiary, Cecil B. DeMille Pictures Corporation, controlled jointly by Jeremiah Milbank and Cecil B. DeMille. DeMille's $2 million expenditure for "The King of Kings," although the film was quite successful, "created a crisis that threatened bankruptcy" and led to the merger of Producer's Distributing Corporation, the Keith Albee-Orpheum chain, ...