The Master of Spectacle, Cecil B. De Mille, directed this risque all-star revue of decadence which must have been jaw-dropping in 1921 and remains astonishing today. Anatol de Witt Spencer (Wallace...
Legendary director Cecil B. DeMille takes on the historical saga of Joan of Arc in his first great spectacle. Following in the epic footsteps of D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation," DeMille's "Joan...
Cecil B. DeMille's breakthrough production, a satire on class distinctions. Based on James M. Barrie's play "The Admirable Crichton," "Male and Female" made a star of Gloria Swanson (Queen Kelly) and...
In scene after scene, Old Wives for New (1918) must have startled its original audiences. The "old" wife, grown fat and slovenly, eats bonbons and reads the Bible while ignoring her...
As described by director Cecil B. DeMille in his autobiography, Why Change Your Wife? stars Gloria Swanson "as an exceedingly prim and proper wife whose virtues are her...
