What is Cecil B. DeMille?
{{Infobox person |name = Cecil B. DeMille |image =Demille - c1920.JPG |caption =DeMille in c. 1920 |birth_name = Cecil Blount DeMille |birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|8|12}} |birth_place = [[Ashfield, Massachusetts]],<br>[[United States]] |spouse = [[Constance Adams DeMille|Constance Adams]] <br/>(1902–1959) |death_date = {{Death date and age|1959|1|21|1881|8|12}} |death_place = [[Hollywood]], [[California]],<br>United States |death_cause = Heart failure |nationality = American |years_active = 1913–1959 |partner = [[Jeanie MacPherson]]<br />[[Julia Faye]] |occupation = {{hlist|Movie director|actor|editor|screenwriter|screenwriter}} |parents = Henry Churchill DeMille<br/>Beatrice Samuel }} {{Commons category|Cecil B. DeMille}} '''Cecil Blount DeMille''' (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an [[Americans|American]] [[movie director]]. He was an [[Academy Award]]-winning producer of both silent and sound movies. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies. His first movies were ''The Squaw Man'' and ''[[Joan the Woman]]''. Among his best-known films are ''Cleopatra'', ''Samson and Delilah''; ''The Greatest Show on Earth'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture; and ''The Ten Commandments'', which was his last and most successful movie. == Personal life and death == DeMille married Constance Adams on August 16, 1902 and had one child, Cecilia. The couple adopted Katherine Lester in the early 1920s. She married [[Anthony Quinn]]. They also adopted two sons, John and Richard. DeMille suffered a near fatal [[heart attack]] in 1956 during the shooting in Egypt of ''The Ten Commandments''. He never fully recovered. He died on January 21, 1959 of heart failure. He rests in [[Hollywood Forever Cemetery]]). At the time of his death, he was planning to direct a movie about space travel. He also wanted to do a movie about the Biblical [[Book of Revelation]].<ref>Eyman 2010, pp. 494–496, 500.</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == * {{IMDb name|1124}} * [http://www.lib.berke