Oral history interview with Cecil Blount DeMille, 1958

Biographical Note

Director and producer

Scope and Contents

Early life and family; pioneer days of motion pictures: first art direction, early studios, "The Squaw Man," "Union Pacific"; censorship. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• DeMille, Cecil B. (Cecil Blount), 1881-1959--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)