Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille By Scott Eyman

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BEST KNOWN AS THE DIRECTOR of such spectacular films as The Ten Commandments and King of Kings, Cecil B. DeMille lived a life as epic as any of his cinematic masterpieces. As a child DeMille learned the Bible from his father, a theology student and playwright who introduced Cecil and his older brother, William, to the theater. Tutored by impresario David Belasco, DeMille discovered how audiences responded to showmanship: sets, lights, costumes, etc. He took this knowledge with him to Los Angeles in 1913, where he became one of the movie pioneers, in partnership with Jesse Lasky and Lasky’s brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn). Working out of a barn on streets fragrant with orange blossom and pepper trees, the Lasky company turned out a string of successful silents, most of them directed by DeMille, who became one of the biggest names of the silent era. With films such as The Squaw Man, Brewster’s Millions, Joan the Woman, and Don’t Change Your Husband, he was the creative backbone of what would become Paramount Studios. In 1923 he filmed his first version of The Ten Commandments and later a second biblical epic, King of Kings, both enormous box-office successes. Although his reputation rests largely on the biblical epics he made, DeMille’s personal life was no morality tale. He remained married to his wife, Constance, for more than fifty years, but for most of the marriage he had three mistresses simultaneously, all of whom worked for him. He showed great loyalty to a small group of actors who knew his style, but he also discovered some major stars, among them Gloria Swanson, Claudette Colbert, and later, Charlton Heston. DeMille was one of the few silent-era directors who made a completely successful transition to sound. In 1952 he won the Academy Award for Best Picture with The Greatest Show on Earth. When he remade The Ten Commandments in 1956, it was an even bigger hit than the silent version. He could act, too: in Billy Wilder’s classic film Sunset Boulevard, DeMille memorably played himself. In the 1930s and 1940s DeMille became a household name thanks to the Lux Radio Theater, which he hosted. But after falling out with a union, he gave up the program, and his politics shifted to the right as he championed loyalty oaths and Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anticommunist witch hunts. As Scott Eyman brilliantly demonstrates in this superbly researched biography, which draws on a massive cache of DeMille family papers not available to previous biographers, DeMille was much more than his clichéd image. A gifted director who worked in many genres; a devoted family man and loyal friend with a highly unconventional personal life; a pioneering filmmaker: DeMille comes alive in these pages, a legend whose spectacular career defined an era.

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The name Cecil B. DeMille is synonymous with the quintessential Hollywood epic. As well-earned and imposing of a reputation as that is, it alone does not begin to adequately describe the man himself. In "Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille", author Scott Eyman has succeeded in going far beyond our general perception of "C.B." as a great showman and reveals him to be a complex, seemingly contradictory individual with a fierce sense of loyalty to his beliefs and profound commitment to satisfying his audience.It seems to have been largely forgotten or taken for granted that DeMille was among the handful of early film pioneers who laid the foundation of the motion picture industry. He, along with D.W. Griffith and others defined cinema language, giving the new medium respectability as a legitimate art form. DeMille produced what is widely considered the very first feature-length film made in Hollywood - THE SQUAW MAN (1914). Prior to that, American movies consisted of one or two-reelers originating from the east coast. It is no exaggeration to say that the glamorous, larger-than-life mystique that defined Hollywood during its Golden Age was largely due to DeMille's influence."Empire of Dreams" takes us through DeMille's glory days during the mid-1910s -'20s when he directed some of the era's most sophisticated, contemporary social dramas as well as the great, inimitable cinema spectacles that became his forté during the second phase of his career from the 1930s-'50s.Eyman also delves into less flattering aspects, such as DeMille's staunch support of Sen. Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist witch hunts - a stand that tarnished DeMille's reputation at the time and, to a certain extent, still does today. By accessing private documentation unavailable to previous authors, Eyman was able to present a more balanced perspective of DeMille - an impassioned filmmaker who was often derided by critics of his day but genuinely revered by the public.After reading this fascinating book, I was motivated to revisit my DeMille video collection. Eyman's vivid, exhaustively researched work has given me a refined insight into the films and the brilliance of the man behind them.Highly recommended.

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