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CEC.i.L B. DE MILLE (Faramount Producer-Director)
Cecil E. DeMille, producer-director of the first feature length film ever made and 60 others since then, is still after twenty-three years one of the most outstanding figures in the motion picture industry.
Through his father, Henry Churchill DeMille, teacher and playwright, DeMille is a descendant of French and Dutch ancestors. Cecil was born August 12, 1881. He has a brother, William, who has been connected with the movies and theatre just as long as he has.
After the father's death Lira. Dek'ille turned her home into the Henry C. DeMille Memorial School for Girls. Tre income served to give Cecil, preparatory training at the Pennsylvania Military Academy and to send his brother to Columbia Univsrsity.
About this time stock companies began to spring up all over the country. Thore grow a demand for plays and Mrs. DeMille started the DeMille Play Company and acted as agent for many famous writers.
Cecil ran away from school to enlist in the army during the SpanishAfrican TVar, but was refused because he was under age. He studied in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and became an actor. He married Constance Adams of Orange, Hew Jersey, when he was touring v:i th E. A. Sothern and Julia Marlowe
DeMille did well during his years as an actor. He also organized and played leads in the Standard Opera Company. During this period the DeMille Play Company was growing in importance. The work was becoming too much for his mother and brother William, Who had '.vritten several stage successes. Cecil became manager of the cup any and pushod its activities vigorously. He wrote several hit plftya himself.
In tho summer of 1913 DeMille and Lcsky not for lunch in a flLw York