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CECIL BLOUNT deMILLE

 

 

Cecil Blount deMille, president of the DeMille Foundation for Political Freedom, was born August 12, 1881. He is the son of Henry Churchill and Beatrice Mathilde (Samuel) deMille.

      He studied at Pennsylvania Military College, Chester, Pennsylvania (honorary Litt.D. degree, 1932); American Academy of Dramatic Art (New York); received an honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts from University of Southern California in 1942.

      Mr. deMille has been a playwright and theatrical producer for eleven years and has been identified with motion picture business since 1913. He was president of Cecil B. DeMille Productions, Inc., Hollywood, California from 1921-1951; he is president of the DeMille Foundation for Political Freedom; founder and operator of the Mercury Aviation Company, Hollywood, California, in 1918, which scheduled passenger flights between cities of Los Angeles and Bakersfield, and San Francisco, and also Los Angeles and San Diego; and is a member of the Association of Motion Picture Producers of America, Inc.

      Mr. deMille’s motion picture productions include “Ten Commandments”; “The Volga Boatman”; “The King of Kings”; “The Sign of the Cross”; “Cleopatra”; “The Crusades”; “The Plainsman”; “The Buccaneer”; “Union Pacific”; “Northwest Mounted Police”; “Reap The Wild Wind”; “The Story of Dr. Wassell”; “Unconquered”; “Samson and Delilah”; “The Greatest Show on Earth”, and many other photoplays. He was decorated with Order of Holy Sepulchre by the Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1928; received Order of Oranje-Nassau from Queen Wilhelmina in 1944.

      In the year 1902 he married Constance Adams and has four children: Cecilia (Mrs. Joseph Wesley Harper), Katherine (Mrs. Anthony Quinn), John Blount, and Richard.

      The family home is at 2000 deMille Drive, Hollywood, California.

      Studio: Paramount Pictures Corporation, Hollywood, California.

 

 

 

 

Transcribed by Marie Hassard 07 February 2014.

­­Source: Eminent Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 172, C. W. Taylor Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.


© 2014  Marie Hassard.

 

 

 

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