- Hardcover: 528 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (18 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 057122900X
- ISBN-13: 978-0571229000
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 5.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 584,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Biography of the greatest movie director of them all and the pioneer of the epic Hollywood blockbuster.
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Cecil B. DeMille is Hollywood's most enduring legend, remembered, and often reviled, for his grandiose Biblical sagas, such as Samson and Delilah and his 1956 version of The Ten Commandments, with its cast of tens of thousands before computer graphics made the modern epic mundane.
Simon Louvish tells the tale of Cecil B. DeMille through his work: a major re-examination of Hollywood's most monumental founder.
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Having read and enjoyed Mr Louvish's biography of Laurel and Hardy and having also read and endured his biography of W.C. Fields I wasn't sure what to expect this time. As a big fan of silent and early cinema I was looking forward to finding out more about the part DeMille played in cinema's early days.
Sadly, within a couple of chapters I knew I was in for a disappoinment. DeMille's life and anything outside of one of the films he was making is glossed over, rushed through and almost ignored. Every chapter is devoted to a long and eventually quite dull review of his next film. Mr Louvish has clearly done his research and watched all the films, but I wanted to know about DeMille the man and this book doesn't deliver.
Anyone wanting to know, in minute detail, the plots of all his films than this book is for you. If, on the other hand you want to know about DeMille's life than you're just as well reading Wikipedia
Sadly, within a couple of chapters I knew I was in for a disappoinment. DeMille's life and anything outside of one of the films he was making is glossed over, rushed through and almost ignored. Every chapter is devoted to a long and eventually quite dull review of his next film. Mr Louvish has clearly done his research and watched all the films, but I wanted to know about DeMille the man and this book doesn't deliver.
Anyone wanting to know, in minute detail, the plots of all his films than this book is for you. If, on the other hand you want to know about DeMille's life than you're just as well reading Wikipedia
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