Talk:Cecil B. DeMille

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the parting of the Red Sea scene in Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 film The Ten Commandments was created by filming the release of hundreds of thousands of gallons of water into a large tank and playing the resulting footage backwards?

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Why note parenthetically ‘adopted’ for Me DeMille’s children? That suggests a distinction’s needed when that’s neither necessary nor appropriate. Are children from sperm and egg and embryo ‘donations’ ever described parenthetically or otherwise as such? Are children from surrogacies identified as such? Of course not but, with the logic employed here, why wouldn’t they be? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uhnopeincoorect (talk • contribs) 17:30, 6 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

IPA Pronunciation of name[edit]

Years ago I added a pronunciation of DeMille's first name and I see now that it has been reversed. Wikipedia is intended as a source of knowledge and ambiguously spelt names like Cecil need pronunciation. Many names on here do not need IPA, but even the Wiki disambiguation page for the name Cecil gives two pronunciations. Why send confused users to another website to determine the pronunciation?; this is critical information about him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petshmm (talk • contribs) 18:08, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Petshmm:, you are welcome to add it back to the article, preferably followed by a reference. I am sorry that it was removed. Skyes(BYU) (talk) 17:40, 6 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Film Stars at Screen Producers Guild Banquet[edit]

(Original Caption) Thirty two stars whose film careers were boosted by Cecil B. DeMille, joins the 74 year old veteran producer at the Screen Producers Guild Banquet at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where DeMille was honored with the coveted screen producers Guild Milestone Award for historic pictures. Left to right in the front row are: Jesse L. Lasky; Virginia Grey; Loretta Young; Julia Faye; Walter Brennan; Jane Darwell; Winifred Kingston; DeMille; Barbara Stanwyck; Reginald Denny; Kathlyn Williams; Claudette Colbert; Raymond Hatton; Susan Hayward; Katherine DeMille Quinn; Beaulah Bondi; and Eddie Quillan. Left to right in the back row are: Rod LaRoque; Frederic March; Ben Alexander; Richard Cromwell; Richard Cortez; Paul Kelly; Yul Brynner; Laraine Day; Charlton Heston; William Boyd; Lon Chaney, Jr.; Gary Cooper; Ward Bond; Anthony Quinn; Henry Wilcoxon; and James Stewart. 73.241.147.83 (talk) 23:30, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification on which film[edit]

In the following passage:

After the release of DeMille's The Godless Girl, silent films in America became obsolete and DeMille was forced to shoot a shoddy final reel with the new sound production technique. Although this final reel looked so different from the previous eleven reels that it appeared to be from another movie, according to Simon Louvish, the film is one of DeMille's strangest and most "DeMillean" film.

to what film does the second sentence refer? I suppose it must be either The Godless Girl or the film mentioned before this, The King of Kings. But to me it's ambiguous. Riordanmr (talk) 03:48, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]