Table of Contents
Foreword Kevin Thomas ix
Preface xi
1 The Squaw Man 1
2 The Virginian 14
3 The Call of the North 19
4 What's-His-Name 23
5 The Man From Home 27
6 The Rose of the Rancho 30
7 The Girl of the Golden West 34
8 The Warrens of Virginia 37
9 The Unafraid 41
10 The Captive 44
11 The Wild Goose Chase 47
12 The Arab 50
13 Chimmie Fadden 52
14 Kindling 54
15 Maria Rosa 57
16 Carmen 60
17 Temptation 64
18 Chimmie Fadden Out West 66
19 The Cheat 68
20 The Golden Chance 71
21 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine 76
22 The Heart of Nora Flynn 79
23 The Dream Girl 82
24 Joan the Woman 90
25 A Romance of the Redwoods 103
26 The Little American 107
27 The Woman God Forgot 112
28 The Devil Stone 116
29 The Whispering Chorus 118
30 Old Wives for New 121
31 We Can't Have Everything 125
32 Till I Come Back to You 127
33 The Squaw Man (first remake) 131
34 Don't Change Your Husband 135
35 For Better, For Worse 138
36 Male and Female 144
37 Why Change Your Wife? 150
38 Something to Think About 155
39 Forbidden Fruit 158
40 The Affairs of Anatol 162
41 Fool's Paradise 165
42 Saturday Night 169
43 Manslaughter 172
44 Adam's Rib 175
45 The Ten Commandments 178
46 Triumph 190
47 Feet of Clay 194
48 The Golden Bed 197
49 The Road to Yesterday 200
50 The Volga Boatman 210
51 The King of Kings 216
52 The Godless Girl 227
53 Dynamite 234
54 Madam Satan 241
55 The Squaw Man (second remake) 248
56 The Sign of the Cross 251
57 This Day and Age 261
58 Four Frightened People 267
59 Cleopatra 275
60 The Crusades 283
61 The Plainsman 293
62 The Buccaneer 299
63 Union Pacific 306
64 North West Mounted Police 312
65 Reap the Wild Wind 316
66 The Story of Dr. Wassell 323
67 Unconquered 329
68 Samson and Delilah 334
69 The Greatest Show on Earth 341
70 The Ten Commandments 351
Appendices
Appendix A DeMille Pictures, Inc., Costs and Grosses 365
Appendix B Other Cecil B. DeMille Film Credits 369
Appendix C Unrealized Projects 371
Appendix D Film Appearances Cecil B. DeMille 373
Notes 377
Bibliography 405
Index 407
Illustrations follow pages 112, 208, and 304