Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille

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The authoritative biography of the legendary director Cecil B. DeMille: “if this were a movie, it would get four stars, two thumbs up, and an A” ( The Dallas Morning News ).

• Hollywood history: Cecil B. DeMille used to be a number of the earliest filmmakers who discovered one of the biggest stars in film, including Gloria Swanson, Claudette Colbert, and later, Charlton Heston. DeMille’s greatest successes came with biblical spectacles, notably The Ten Commandments and King of Kings . When he after all won an Academy Award for best picture with The Greatest Show on Earth, he had been making films for forty years.

• A completely realized portrait : DeMille has steadily been reduced to a cartoon: a hack who made empty epic spectacles, a right-winger and McCarthy supporter right through the blacklist, and a tyrannical director who abused his actors. Eyman as a substitute presents a balanced account of a remarkably rich life.

• An authoritative biography : Scott Eyman is the first biographer to have get entry to to DeMille’s letters and other personal papers for publication. Eyman settles for nothing less than the real man, as he did in his biographies of John Ford and Louis B. Mayer. The result is a unique history of Hollywood’s earliest years and the rediscovery of a major filmmaker.

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