Useless quote for 27 May:

"Legend rides high with history, but truth follows a lonely trail."

~ Cecil B. DeMille, 1937

#UselessQuote #CecilBDeMille

84 years ago:
Union Pacific (US)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Cam...
1939-05-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43837
#UnionPacific #CecilBDeMille #BarbaraStanwyck #JoelMcCrea #AkimTamiroff #AnneBauchens #WomenInFilm #Paramount

108 years ago:
The Captive (US)
Set during the Balkan Wars, The Captive tells the story of Sonia, a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger brother Milos and the family farm when older brother Marko goes off to battle. Unable to handle the day-to-day tasks following her brother’s tragic death, help comes ...
1915-04-22
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/415021
#TheCaptive #CecilBDeMille #PreCode #ClassicMovies

I'm a big fan of Cecil B. DeMille’s comedies. My favourite is his outrageous pre-code musical sex comedy Madam Satan (1930). Zeppelins, amazing costumes, lots of pre-code naughtiness. It all adds up to delirious crazy fun.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/04/madam-satan-1930.html

#precodehollywood #precodemovies #precode #classicmovies #classicmovie #1930smovie #goldenagehollywood #KayJohnson #CecilBDeMille #musicals #hollywoodmusicals #PreCodeApril

96 years ago:
The King of Kings (US)
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousand...
1927-04-19
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/49633
#TheKingofKings #CecilBDeMille #HBWarner #JosephSchildkraut #AnneBauchens #WomenInFilm #PreCode

“The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
― Cecil B. DeMille https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_B._DeMille

#Bot #Quote #Success #CecilBDeMille

105 years ago:
The Whispering Chorus (US)
John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying from shock, asks him to keep his identity secret since his wife is now married to the Governor and expecting a...
1918-03-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/117024
#TheWhisperingChorus #CecilBDeMille #PreCode #Movies

81 years ago:
Reap the Wild Wind (US)
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and t...
1942-03-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/63617
#ReaptheWildWind #CecilBDeMille #RayMilland #JohnWayne #PauletteGoddard #AnneBauchens #Paramount #Movies

North West Mounted Police (1940), a 1940 Cecil B. DeMille western. He didn’t make movies the way modern critics and reviewers think movies should be made. Personally I prefer DeMille’s way of making movies. He loved melodrama. I love melodrama.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/03/north-west-mounted-police-1940.html

#classicmovies #classicmovie #1940smovie #goldenagehollywood #western #westerns #CecilBDeMille #GaryCooper #PauletteGodard #MadeleineCarroll

“The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
― Cecil B. DeMille https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_B._DeMille

#Bot #Quote #Success #CecilBDeMille

71 years ago:
The Greatest Show on Earth (US)
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.
1952-02-16
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/27191
#TheGreatestShowonEarth #CecilBDeMille #CornelWilde #CharltonHeston #DorothyLamour #AnneBauchens #Paramount #ClassicFilm #Film

109 years ago:
The Squaw Man (US)
Blamed for the theft of an orphans fund, Captain James Wynnegate flees to the West where he makes a new life with the Indian woman Nat-U-Rich.
1914-02-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/161710
#TheSquawMan #CecilBDeMille #Western #PreCode #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

Male and Female (1919), Cecil B. DeMille's take on J.M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton. It made teenaged Gloria Swanson a star. A shipwrecked aristocratic family needs their butler to save them.

Sophisticated comedy, a fine romantic melodrama and an effective satire. And it’s visually arresting. Great movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/02/male-and-female-1919.html

#JMBarrie #CecilBDeMille #GloriaSwanson #silentmovie #silentmovies #silentcinema #classicmovies #classicmovie #goldenagehollywood

85 years ago:
The Buccaneer (US)
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
1938-02-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/115425
#TheBuccaneer #CecilBDeMille #WalterBrennan #AnthonyQuinn #BeulahBondi #AnneBauchens #Paramount #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

89 years ago:
Four Frightened People (US)
Malaya tropical island romantic love triangle adventure thriller, about a cruise ship where Bubonic plague breaks out. Four people are able to leave the ship in a tiny boat and make it to a desert island, where many adventures ensue and, of course, the two men fight over the beautiful young schoolte...
1934-01-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/61392
#FourFrightenedPeople #CecilBDeMille #AnneBauchens #Paramount #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

Cecil B. DeMille’s 1915 silent movie The Cheat was a landmark movie which still stands up remarkably well. The 1931 remake with Tallulah Bankhead isn't quite up to DeMille's standard but it's worth seeing.

A woman obtains a loan, and there's a price to be paid in flesh. And there's the possibility of a cheat. Very precode.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-cheat-1931-remake.html

#TallulahBankhead #precodehollywood #precodemovies #precode #classicmovies #classicmovie #1930smovie #goldenagehollywood #CecilBDeMille

The Cheat (1915) is an early Cecil B. DeMille silent melodrama. It was the movie that put DeMille on the map. And it was one of the movies that indicated that maybe movies should be taken seriously as an art form. And it's very entertaining.

Edith Hardy needs a loan and she finds there's a high price to be paid. With the possibility of cheating.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-cheat-1915.html

#CecilBDeMille #silentmovies #silentcinema #melodrama #decadence #classicmovies #classicmovie #goldenagehollywood

RT @MDigout99
Momma Beaver can be a bit of a diva (a diva beava? 😀). In this video, she quickly fixes her chin fur, and then gives me a look that says “I’m ready for my close up, Mr. DeMille.” 😀👍❤️🦫

#beaver #cecilbdemille #funnyanimals #closeup #asmr

MANSLAUGHTER is a 1922 silent melodrama directed by Cecil B. DeMille. A spoilt flapper gets herself in hot water. Typical DeMille decadence and outrageousness, with both the debauchery and the moralising melodrama being equally over-the-top.

I loved it. But Then I love all of DeMille's silent movies.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/01/manslaughter-1922.html

#FilmMastodon #classicmovies #classicmovie #CecilBDeMille #silentmovies #silentcinema #melodrama #decadence

#Cleopatra loses nothing being dubbed in German: it still screams #CecilBDeMille. Liz Taylor, Rex Harrison, and Richard Burton do it proud, even in cheesy German.

And it is cheese most glorious...