1934 ✴RARE VINTAGE ORIGINAL✴ Cecil B. DeMille 8x10 PHOTO for Paramount CLEOPATRA

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1934 ✴RARE VINTAGE ORIGINAL✴ Cecil B. DeMille 8x10 PHOTO for Paramount CLEOPATRA:
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Original press photo for 1934 Paramount Pictures Studio movie \"CLEOPATRA\"
Back: Original typewritten notes and stamps from old Hollywood days
Some handling creases and minor repairs. Overall, very clean and presentable.
REAL PHOTO not a DIGITAL PRINT not a COPY

Cecil Blount DeMille(/ˈsɛsəldəˈmɪl/;[1]August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker. Between 1913 and 1956, he made a total of 70 features, bothsilentandsound films.[2]He is acknowledged as a founding father of thecinema of the United Statesand the most commercially successful producer-director in film history.[3]His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. He made silent films of every genre: social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.

DeMille began his career as a stage actor in 1900.[4]He later moved to writing and directing stage productions, some withJesse Lasky, who was then avaudevilleproducer. DeMille\'s first film,The Squaw Man(1914), was also the first feature film shot in Hollywood. Its interracial love story made it a phenomenal hit and it \"putHollywoodon the map.\"[5]The continued success of his productions led to the founding ofParamount Pictureswith Lasky andAdolph Zukor. His first biblical epic,The Ten Commandments(1923), was both a critical and financial success;[6]it held the Paramount revenue record for twenty-five years.[7]

In 1927 he directedThe King of Kings, a biography of Jesus of Nazareth, which was acclaimed for its sensitivity and reached more than 800 million viewers.[8]The Sign of the Cross(1932) was the first sound film to integrate all aspects of cinematic technique.[9]Cleopatra(1934) was his first film to be nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Picture. After more than thirty years in film production, DeMille reached the pinnacle of his career withSamson and Delilah(1949), a biblical epic which did \"an all-time record business.\"[10]Along with biblical and historical narratives, he also directed films oriented toward \"neo-naturalism,\" which tried to portray the laws of man fighting the forces of nature.[11]

He went on to receive his first nomination for theAcademy Award for Best Directorfor his circus dramaThe Greatest Show on Earth(1952), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. His last and most famous film,The Ten Commandments(1956), is currently thesixth-highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation.[12]In addition to his Best Picture Award, he received anAcademy Honorary Awardfor his film contributions, thePalme d\'Or(posthumously) forUnion Pacific, aDGA Awardfor Lifetime Achievement, and theIrving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. He was also the first recipient of theGolden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which was later named in his honor.

Cleopatrais a 1934epic filmdirected byCecil B. DeMilleand distributed byParamount Pictures, which retells the story ofCleopatra VII of Egypt. It was written byWaldemar Young, Vincent Lawrence andBartlett Cormack, and produced and directed byCecil B. DeMille.Claudette Colbertstars as Cleopatra,Warren WilliamasJulius Caesar, andHenry WilcoxonasMark Antony.