Cinema Corporation of America collection, 1925-1981 (inclusive) (bulk 1925-1932).

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Cinema Corporation of America collection, 1925-1981 (inclusive) (bulk 1925-1932).

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The Cinema Corporation of America Collection documents Cecil B. DeMille's role in the founding of the company and its film distribution activities in later years under Vice President Alan F. Martin. The collection includes production materials for "The King of Kings" and other films; correspondence, business records, legal materials; educational filmstrips; religious film catalogs, and the "Cap Stubbs and Tippie" newspaper cartoon strips created and drawn by Edwina Dumm, which first appeared in 1918. They were purchased by the Cinema Corporation of America in the mid 1920s.

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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...

PatheĢ Exchange.

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Cecil B. DeMille Pictures Corporation.

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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, ...

Motion Pictures Capital Corporation.

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Edwina, 1893-1990

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Frances Edwina Dumm was born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio of a newspaper family. In 1916 she was the only woman to work full-time as an editorial cartoonist in America. She worked for the Columbus (Ohio) Saturday Monitor, later the Columbus Daily Monitor, 1915-1917. She is best known for her warm, friendly comic strip featuring a boy and his dog, Cap Stubbs and Tippie, which was syndicated by the George Matthew Adams Service in 1921 (The Sunday strips were distributed by King Features under the title...

Producers Distributing Corporation

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RKO Pictures

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Martin, Alan F.

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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) ...

Logan, Jacqueline

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