What a lot of people fail to remember is that before Cecil B | How many people do you know who use the word strumpet in their every day conversation? DeMille stopped his speech and directed everyone's attention to the young woman |
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Anne Baxter has Nefretiri has both these guys hormones in overdrive | Though he was no director of actors and his sense of drama was generations old, DeMille was a firm believer in two things, fill the screen and make the films move |
Charlton Heston his nephew or Yul Brynner his son? "Here", DeMille said, "we have a young woman whose conversation with her friend is apparently more important than listening to her instructions from her director while we are all engaged in making motion picture history.
16Robinson as Dathan loved this picture | When I was 10 years old I saw The Ten Commandments in the the theater which is the only place it really should be seen |
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Moses, an Egyptian Prince, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people | Anne Baxter is a royal princess promised to the next Pharoah designate |
Of course he'd insist on some of the same writing, but then again without it, it wouldn't be a DeMille picture.
13Heston is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket | This prologue has always been cut in the film's network television showings |
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DeMille used an old gambit of his, two men in a rivalry over a woman | You shall have no other gods before Me |
Robinson was grateful and gave him full credit in his unfinished memoirs.