CECIL B DEMILLE—Memoir SIGNED By 3–Agnes DeMille+Henry Wilcoxon+Jetta Goudal For Sale

CECIL B DEMILLE

SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED MEMOIR

Posthumous

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

FIRST PRINTING

IN DUST JACKET

465 PAGES

PRENTICE-HALL (1959)

SIGNED BY HIS

CHOREOGRAPHER NIECE

STAR/PRODUCER

STAR/NEMESIS

Henry Wilcoxon (September 1905 – March 1984) was a British-American actor and film producer, born in the British West Indies. He was best known as part of the stock company of director Cecil B. DeMille, playing both leading men (Cleopatra) and supporting roles, and also serving as DeMille\'s associate producer on his later films, but his post-DeMille acting career continued on beyond Caddyshack, where he. was the golfing Bishop

Agnes de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7, 1993) was an a Tony and m Emmy winningdancer and choreographer.Her father William C. deMille and her uncle Cecil B. DeMille were both Stage/Hollywood writer-directors.

Julie Henriette Goudal (July 12, 1891 – January 14, 1985) was a Dutch-American star, successful in Hollywood films of the silent film era.She appeared in several highly successful and acclaimed films for DeMille and became one of the top box-office draws of the late 1920s. DeMille later claimed that Goudal was so difficult to work with that he eventually fired her and cancelled their contract. Goudal filed a lawsuit for breach of contract against him and DeMille Pictures Corporation. Although DeMille claimed her conduct had caused numerous and costly production delays, Goudal won the suit in a landmark ruling when DeMille was unwilling to provide his studio\'s financial records to support his claim of financial losses.

\"The name of Cecil B. DeMille has become a household word to generations of movie goers throughout the world. It has been linked with great accomplishment - and controversy - in the popular arts. Now the man himself steps out of the myth in his own vigorous, entertaining life-story that may well become one of the most significant and widely-read autobiographies of his time. His outspoken, often moving book reveals the humor, the imagination and the faith that made him a master of his industry and of his craft.

Writing with all his customary clarity and force, the author takes you back in time to a nostalgic earlier day of the American theatre. You meet, through his eyes, the men and women who have become the legends of our stage... Maude Adams, riding gaily on 8-year old Cecil\'s sled... Evelyn Nesbit, already a beauty at sixteen, at Mrs. Henry DeMille\'s boarding school, pursued by the impetuous John Barrymore who left love letters for her on the tennis court... David Belasco, director and impression, who lived with the DeMille family... E. H. Sothern and Charles Frohman, who, with Belasco, molded the author\'s early career as actor and playwright... Mary Pickford, the idol of the silent films.

Cecil B. DeMille now reveals how Hollywood began ... the amusing last-minute decision on the station platform at Flagstaff, Arizona, that brought

them on to California... how his first film, The Squaw Man, was made in a stable with the stalls doubling as dressing rooms. Here is the inside story of the struggles, the mishaps, the pitfalls and dangers of the early days of Hollywood... the struggle to survive against \"the Trust\" and its hired strong-arm men... the attempted sabotage of DeMille\'s precious film... the two attempts, from ambush, on the author\'s life.

You\'ll never forget the hair-raising scenes that occurred onstage and that threatened to destroy the infant company, such as the time a demented man-mager who came to shoot DeMille was hired as a stunt man...or the time when an enraged bull tossed, then charged, the matador of Carmen while the others helplessly looked on. You, too, will hold your breath with the crew and cast of The Virginian as an escaped rattlesnake coils under the legs of the star. You\'ll witness the disastrous showing of The Squaw Man that threatened DeMille with bankruptcy and failure.

Movie goers will enjoy the author\'s informative and authoritative asides on movie-making techniques

- the problems of shooting, editing, casting, directing and acting, and the special effects of which DeMille was a master.

DeMille\'s book reveals how the Bible exerted an unwavering influence on his personal and professional life... and how through his great religious films, The King of Kings and The Ten Command-ments, he came to be called \"a prophet in celluloid\" by Billy Graham. Here is the inside story of DeMille\'s historic refusal to pay a one-dollar assessment to a union\'s political treasury and how this changed the course of his later years.

Here, too, are the memorable stories behind his epical films, such as The Plainsman, The Buccaneer, Union Pacific, North West Mounted Police, Reap The Wild Wind, The Story of Dr. Wassell, Samson and Delilah, The Greatest Show on Earth.

A novel based on DeMille\'s life would seem incredible. Yet every moment of this drama lived by this creator of drama who was also businessman, banker, aviator, and fighter for his beliefs, is true - a vivid, swift-moving, inspiring story of a dynamic, many-sided human being.

All royalties on this book are going to the

Cecil B. DeMille Trust

for charitable, educational and religious purposes.

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