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William C. deMille

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William Churchill de Mille (July 25, 1878 – March 5, 1955) was an American screenwriter and film director from the silent film era through the early 1930s. [1]

69 relations: A Trip to Paramountown, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, After the Show (film), Agnes de Mille, Beatrice deMille, Bought and Paid For, Brander Matthews, Braveheart (1925 film), Carmen (1915 Cecil B. DeMille film), Cecil B. DeMille, Choreography, Clara Beranger, Clarence (1922 film), Classmates (1924 film), Columbia University, Conrad in Quest of His Youth, Craig's Wife (1928 film), David Belasco, Douglas Fairbanks, Film director, For Better, for Worse (1919 film), Grumpy (1923 film), Henry Churchill de Mille, Henry George, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Icebound (film), In 1999, Internet Broadway Database, Jack Straw (1920 film), Lorna Moon, Lost: A Wife, M. C. Levee, Maria Rosa (1916 film), Mary Pickford, Men and Women (1925 film), Midsummer Madness (1921 film), Miss Lulu Bett (film), New Brooms, Nice People, North Carolina, Passion Flower (1930 film), Peggy George, Peter Wild, Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, Rose of the Rancho, Screenwriter, Sephardi Jews, Silent film, Tenth Avenue (film), The Goose Girl (1915 film), ..., The Heir to the Hoorah, The House of Discord, The Idle Rich (1929 film), The New York Times, The Ragamuffin, The Runaway (1926 film), The Secret Game (1917 film), The Sowers, The Tree of Knowledge (1920 film), The Warrens of Virginia (play), The Wild Goose Chase (film), The Woman (1915 film), USC School of Cinematic Arts, Washington, North Carolina, What Every Woman Knows (1921 film), Why Change Your Wife?, Young Romance (film), 1st Academy Awards, 2nd Academy Awards. Expand index (19 more) »

A Trip to Paramountown

A Trip to Paramountown is a 1922 American short silent documentary film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released through Paramount Pictures, to celebrate 10 years of Paramount's founding.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS (often pronounced as am-pas), also known as simply the Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures.

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After the Show (film)

After the Show is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by William C. deMille and written by Vianna Knowlton and Hazel Christie MacDonald based on a story by Rita Weiman.

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Agnes de Mille

Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer.

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Beatrice deMille

Matilda Beatrice deMille (January 30, 1853 - October 8, 1923) (born Matilda Beatrice Samuel; also known as Beatrice C. deMille, Agnes Graham, Tillie Samuel, Mrs. Henry deMille) was an English-American play broker, screenwriter, playwright, theater actress and entrepreneur.

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Bought and Paid For

Bought and Paid For is a lost 1922 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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Brander Matthews

James Brander Matthews (February 21, 1852 – March 31, 1929) was an American writer and educator.

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Braveheart (1925 film)

Braveheart is a 1925 American silent western film directed by Alan Hale Sr. and starring Rod La Rocque.

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Carmen (1915 Cecil B. DeMille film)

Carmen is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

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Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker.

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Choreography

Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion, form, or both are specified.

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Clara Beranger

Clara Beranger (also Berenger, née Strouse, January 14, 1886 – September 10, 1956) was an American screenwriter of the silent film era and a member of the original faculty of the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

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Clarence (1922 film)

Clarence is a 1922 American silent comedy drama, based on a play by Booth Tarkington, produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures.

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Classmates (1924 film)

Classmates is a lost 1924 American silent drama film starring Richard Barthelmess, produced by his company Inspiration Pictures, and distributed by Associated First National Pictures.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Conrad in Quest of His Youth

Conrad in Quest of His Youth is a 1920 American silent comedy drama film directed by William C. deMille and starring Thomas Meighan.

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Craig's Wife (1928 film)

Craig's Wife is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by William C. deMille and starring Irene Rich, Warner Baxter and Virginia Bradford.

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David Belasco

David Belasco (July 25, 1853 – May 14, 1931) was an American theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright.

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Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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For Better, for Worse (1919 film)

For Better, for Worse is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gloria Swanson.

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Grumpy (1923 film)

Grumpy is a 1923 silent film drama distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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Henry Churchill de Mille

Henry Churchill de Mille (September 17, 1853 – February 10, 1893) was an American businessman and Georgist, and the father of film pioneers Cecil B. de Mille and William C. de Mille, and the paternal grandfather of the dancer and choreographer Agnes de Mille.

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Henry George

Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist.

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Hollywood Forever Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles, California in the United States.

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Icebound (film)

Icebound (1924) is a silent film drama produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by William C. deMille, and based on a 1923 Pulitzer Prize Broadway produced play of the same name by Owen Davis.

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In 1999

In 1999 is a 1912 one-act comedic short play by William C. deMille, originally produced by Jesse L. Lasky, that was popular upon its release.

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Internet Broadway Database

The Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel.

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Jack Straw (1920 film)

Jack Straw is a 1920 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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Lorna Moon

Lorna Moon (born Nora Helen Wilson Low; 16 June 1886 – 1 May 1930) was a Scottish author and screenwriter from the early days of Hollywood.

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Lost: A Wife

Lost: A Wife is a lost 1925 American silent comedy film directed by William C. deMille and written by Clara Beranger based upon a play by Clare Kummer and Alfred Savoir.

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M. C. Levee

M.C. Levee (January 18, 1891, Chicago – May 24, 1972, Palm Springs, California) was born Michael C. Levee.

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Maria Rosa (1916 film)

Maria Rosa is a surviving 1916 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

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Mary Pickford

Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-born film actress and producer.

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Men and Women (1925 film)

Men and Women is a lost 1925 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures.

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Midsummer Madness (1921 film)

Midsummer Madness is a 1921 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures.

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Miss Lulu Bett (film)

Miss Lulu Bett is a 1921 American silent comedy drama film based on a 1920 play and bestselling novel of the same name by Zona Gale.

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New Brooms

New Brooms is a lost 1925 silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures.

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Nice People

Nice People is a lost 1922 American silent drama film directed by William C. deMille and starring Wallace Reid and Bebe Daniels.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Passion Flower (1930 film)

Passion Flower is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed and produced by William C. deMille and starring Kay Francis, Kay Johnson and Charles Bickford in a romantic triangle.

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Peggy George

Peggy George (1908 – 1978) was an American film actress from the silent movie era.

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Peter Wild

Peter T. Wild (April 25, 1940 – February 23, 2009) was a poet, historian, and professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

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Playa del Rey, Los Angeles

Playa del Rey (Spanish for "Beach of the King" or "King's beach") is an affluent beachside community in the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, California.

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Rose of the Rancho

Rose of the Rancho is a 1914 American Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

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Screenwriter

A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter for short), scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, comics or video games, are based.

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Sephardi Jews

Sephardi Jews, also known as Sephardic Jews or Sephardim (סְפָרַדִּים, Modern Hebrew: Sefaraddim, Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm; also Ye'hude Sepharad, lit. "The Jews of Spain"), originally from Sepharad, Spain or the Iberian peninsula, are a Jewish ethnic division.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Tenth Avenue (film)

Tenth Avenue is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by William C. deMille and starring Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi and Joseph Schildkraut.

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The Goose Girl (1915 film)

The Goose Girl is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Frederick A. Thomson and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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The Heir to the Hoorah

The Heir to the Hoorah is a surviving 1916 silent film produced by Jesse Lasky and released through Paramount Pictures.

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The House of Discord

The House of Discord (1913) is a silent American drama film directed by James Kirkwood, Sr., written by F. E. Woods and A. Clayton Harris from a play by William C. deMille.

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The Idle Rich (1929 film)

The Idle Rich is a 1929 American Pre-Code early sound comedy film produced and released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer and directed by William C. deMille.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Ragamuffin

The Ragamuffin is a 1916 American silent drama film directed and written by William C. deMille.

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The Runaway (1926 film)

The Runaway is a 1926 American silent film melodrama directed by William C. deMille and starring Clara Bow, Warner Baxter, William Powell, and George Bancroft.

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The Secret Game (1917 film)

The Secret Game is a surviving 1917 American silent drama film produced by Jesse Lasky and released through Paramount Pictures.

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The Sowers

The Sowers is a surviving 1916 silent film drama produced by Jesse Lasky, released through Paramount Pictures and directed by William C. deMille.

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The Tree of Knowledge (1920 film)

The Tree of Knowledge is a lost 1920 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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The Warrens of Virginia (play)

The Warrens of Virginia is a dramatic play set during the American Civil War by playwright William C. de Mille.

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The Wild Goose Chase (film)

The Wild Goose Chase is a 1915 American comedy-drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

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The Woman (1915 film)

The Woman is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by George Melford based on a play by William C. deMille.

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USC School of Cinematic Arts

The USC School of Cinematic Arts (commonly referred to as SCA)—formerly the USC School of Cinema-Television, otherwise known as CNTV—is a private media school within the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California.

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Washington, North Carolina

Washington, commonly known as The Original Washington, or Little Washington (to distinguish it from Washington, D.C.), is a city in Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States, located on the northern bank of the Pamlico River.

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What Every Woman Knows (1921 film)

What Every Woman Knows is a 1921 American silent comedy drama film adapted form the play What Every Woman Knows by James Barrie.

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Why Change Your Wife?

Why Change Your Wife? is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gloria Swanson.

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Young Romance (film)

Young Romance is a 1915 American silent romance film directed and produced by George Melford.

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1st Academy Awards

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1927 and 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929 at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

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2nd Academy Awards

The 2nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films released between August 1, 1928, and July 31, 1929.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._deMille

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