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"HIT SEX HARD!" 203 "Oh, Mr. DeMille, I couldn't touch a snake." DeMifle had not yet given her the part, but he told her that if she stood firm on that decision he would have to seek another actress. "Don't say you will or wonV he suggested. "It will be the last scene in the picture, and let's leave the whole problem to that time/' The death scene, ready for the camera, found Claudette, a magnificently gowned Cleopatra, seated on a bkck onyx throne from which stretched a red marble runner, making the journey to the dais a long and dramatic one. The cameraman had ad- justed lens, awaiting the call for action, when the actress saw DeMille approach her from the far end of the marble strip. He was moving, slowly, step by step, and pointing in her direction a huge snake. She blinked, but she was not mistaken—it was a Mexican boa constrictor, eight feet long, its head lying on the palm of DeMille's outstretched hand. "Mr. DeMiller screamed the actress. "Yes," he said, stepping toward the dais. "Don't! Don't come near me with that thing!" Quickly DeMille's other hand, up to this point hidden behind him, flashed out at the actress. In it he held a small harmless snake a few inches long, resembling a sand adder. "How about this one?" "Oh, that little thing," she said, almost a sigh of relief, and in a few -minutes the death scene was filmed. In 1922 in FooTs Paradise, Julia Faye played the Queen of Siam (Tve played five queens for DeMiEe!") with two bkck snakes coiled around her arms. "We were working at Balboa at night. I was miserable because of the cold and petrified be- cause of the snakes. I was holding the heads of the snakes in my hands and what part of them wasn't wrapped around me trailed to the ground. They were that long. After a while I felt a pressure. I ran to DeMille screaming, "They're squeezing me!