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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
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,
Studio:
Paramount Pictures Corporation,
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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