DeMille is an old pro, and you'll see why in "The Lion's Game". From Wordnik.com. [Reader reviews of The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille.] Reference
The name of DeMille would have been a distinguished part of show business for fifty years. From Wordnik.com. [Empire of Dreams] Reference
DeMille is great at creating interesting tough-guy characters and exciting plots based on real events. From Wordnik.com. [The Long of It! | The Stiletto Gang] Reference
He called DeMille’s office and asked for an interview. From Wordnik.com. [Empire of Dreams] Reference
By August 1942, the FBI called DeMille one of the best Special Service Contacts the Bureau has. From Wordnik.com. [Empire of Dreams] Reference
Jesse Lasky Jr. said that I prefer to call DeMille a great actor and a great showman rather than a hypocrite. From Wordnik.com. [Empire of Dreams] Reference
A half century after his death, DeMille is ready for another close-up, and this is as good a one as we’re likely to get for some time. From Wordnik.com. [Cover to Cover] Reference
"This is why the name 'DeMille' meant that I was going to see a real movie.". From Wordnik.com. [Review of "Empire of Dreams," Scott Eyman's biography of Cecil B. DeMille] Reference
Nelson DeMille: The Lion's Game is doing very well. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson DeMille - An interview with author] Reference
When the movie opened, DeMille appeared on the screen. From Wordnik.com. [Bruce Feiler: This Month in Moses: How the Superhero of the Bible Became an American Pop Icon] Reference
It was an outlaw's sensibility with a touch of DeMille. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Gliatto: Robert Altman's Non-Masterpiece] Reference
Nelson DeMille: Well, I use the cliff hanger technique. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson DeMille - An interview with author] Reference
Nelson DeMille: I was in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1969. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson DeMille - An interview with author] Reference
My Commandments are more than the plot of a DeMille movie. From Wordnik.com. [Maggie Van Ostrand: God Sues Congress] Reference
Browse an author interview and biography of Nelson DeMille. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson DeMille - An interview with author] Reference
Nelson DeMille: Some of my books call for a lot of traveling. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson DeMille - An interview with author] Reference
Better yet, DeMille at his best always knew how to make a movie move. From Wordnik.com. [Run of DeMille] Reference
Here, for once, we have a sense of DeMille as an entirely actualized man. From Wordnik.com. [Monarch of the Movie Set] Reference
Nelson DeMille: I'm actually not that prolific, having written 11 novels since. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson DeMille - An interview with author] Reference
Nelson DeMille: These were books written back in the early 1970s and they were. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson DeMille - An interview with author] Reference
Nelson DeMille: I was involved with the screenplay, but only to a small extent. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson DeMille - An interview with author] Reference
I dont think DeMille directed Laughton to be that flamboyant, to be that queenie. From Wordnik.com. [New Bio Gives Cecil B. DeMille His Own Close-Up] Reference
Years earlier, DeMille had made exuberant marital comedies starring Gloria Swanson. From Wordnik.com. [Review of "Empire of Dreams," Scott Eyman's biography of Cecil B. DeMille] Reference
It was extraordinarily perverse and extraordinarily effective -- and typically DeMille. From Wordnik.com. [Review of "Empire of Dreams," Scott Eyman's biography of Cecil B. DeMille] Reference
Nelson DeMille: I thought that Paramount Motion Pictures did a good job with the movie. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson DeMille - An interview with author] Reference
Nelson DeMille: This was the first time I've ever made references to any of my other books. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson DeMille - An interview with author] Reference
DeMille digested this and then said, "That puts me at something of a disadvantage, doesn't it?". From Wordnik.com. [Run of DeMille] Reference
DeNiro said he thought DeMille would have been proud to be presented with a Martin Scorsese Award. From Wordnik.com. [Splattered by Golden Globs: Preening in the Rain] Reference
Nelson DeMille: I was very athletic, and played football, wrestling, and ran track in high school. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson DeMille - An interview with author] Reference
I think Laughton decided to go with it and DeMille decided to go with it and didnt want to reign him in. From Wordnik.com. [New Bio Gives Cecil B. DeMille His Own Close-Up] Reference
Martin Scorsese claims that only Steven Spielberg knows as much as DeMille about manipulating crowds onscreen. From Wordnik.com. [Run of DeMille] Reference
To drive home his point, DeMille cast mostly Americans as the Israelites and mostly Europeans as the Egyptians. From Wordnik.com. [Bruce Feiler: This Month in Moses: How the Superhero of the Bible Became an American Pop Icon] Reference
In 1932, for instance, motivated mostly by his desire to vanquish Prohibition, DeMille had voted for Franklin Roosevelt. From Wordnik.com. [Monarch of the Movie Set] Reference
The tenth plague was often portrayed as an angel with a bloody knife, but DeMille thought the image wasn't scary enough. From Wordnik.com. [Bruce Feiler: This Month in Moses: How the Superhero of the Bible Became an American Pop Icon] Reference
Told at a breakneck pace, Empire of Dreams resembles nothing so much as a DeMille movie — gaudy, corny, and enthralling. From Wordnik.com. [Run of DeMille] Reference
The feeling seems to have been mutual; as another female admirer insisted, "DeMille got women," in both senses of the term. From Wordnik.com. [Monarch of the Movie Set] Reference
But in the years 1915, 1916, 1917 and on through the '20s, DeMille, not every picture, but cumulatively, his accomplishment is astonishing. From Wordnik.com. [New Bio Gives Cecil B. DeMille His Own Close-Up] Reference
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