Who's who on the screen ([c1920])

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

Who's ]]'li() OH the Screen ("IXIL 15. I)K MILLE ("f'cil Hlount DcMillc, Director General of I lie I'limniis Phiyors-Lasky Corpo- ration, was horn August 12th, 1881. He acquired his first knowledge of the stage I)laying child parts in his father's company. Ilis interest in the drama increased with each year and when Init eighteen years old, in collahoralion witii liis lirotiicr, he wrote Ilis first play. Graduating as an actor, Mr. DeMille l)ccanH' a ])roducing manager. With the start of the motion picture industry, Cecil H. DeMille, first looking askance at tiie new amusement, finally became a leader in the field. He started his first film- play ()ro(hi(tion in l'.)])) and his name must lie recorded among tin- creators of the art of \\\r plmlodrama. IVdiiiiiiint among ilis screen successes are "Male and Female,' "Why Change '^'our Wife," nml "Sunirlhinii- to 'Pliiiik Ahoiit." 342