Silver Voices: Cecil B. DeMille Interview (1958) [Part 1]

Photo by Ruth Harriet Louise. Courtesy Stills, Posters, and Paper Collections/George Eastman Museum 00:00:00 Early Career – Transition from Theatre to Film 00:03:24 Early Career – CARMEN (1915) 00:05:36 Early Career – THE CHEAT (1915), Sessue Hayakawa and technique with actors 00:08:00 Early Career – JOAN THE WOMAN (1916) and comparisons to D.W. Griffith 00:13:07 Early Career – THE LITTLE AMERICAN (1917), working with Mary Pickford and Jack Holt 00:17:50 Early Career – THE WHISPERING CHORUS (1918), MALE AND FEMALE (1919) 00:24:10 Career – Representations of marriage, OLD WIVES FOR NEW (1918) and tensions with Paramount The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this audio do not necessarily represent those of the Institute of Library Sciences or the National Endowment for the Humanities.