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"Cecil B. DeMille\nHollywood Residence of a Master Showman\nMrs. DeMille's office.\n\nMrs. DeMille's office and library opened to the music room. The picture of her husband was taken in 1916, the year they bought the house, when he was 35 and an increasingly active and significant figure in the burgeoning motion picture industry. The photograph on the bookcase is of DeMille's mother, Beatrice.\nDeMille's office.\n\nAmong the memorabilia in DeMille's office was a Path\u00E9 camera that was used to film his first Hollywood feature, The Squaw Man, in 1914. Constance DeMille gave her husband the opium bowl, foreground, to remind him not to drop pipe ashes on the carpet.\nThe entrance to the DeMille house.\n\n\"Keeping the same house for four decades must be something of a record in Los Angeles,\" Cecil B. De Mille wrote of his Mediterranean-style house in Laughlin Park, which he bought in 1916.\nThe garden.\n\nDeMille bought Charlie Chaplin's house next door to use as an office, screening room and guesthouse. Linked by a conservatory, the houses enclose a garden often used for publicity stills for his films.\nThe DeMille dining room.\n\n\"Produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille\" was, for much of the 20th century, shorthand for extravagance on the screen. \"I like to paint on a big canvas,\" DeMille said of his film productions. By contrast, the family's home life was relatively simple, and dinner parties tended to be small and select.\nDeMille's desk in his office.\n\nDeMille's Oscar for The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) was on view in his office at home. In 1913 he cofounded the Lasky company, which became Paramount, and he spent most of his prolific career there. The producer-director-writer is generally credited with helping Hollywood become an important film center."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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