The Affairs of Anatol 1921  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Bebe Daniels, Monte Blue, Theodore Roberts, Theodore Kosloff, Polly Moran, Raymond Hatton, William Boyd
Loose lifestyles following World War I are the subject of this film about a bored husband Anatol DeWitt Spencer (Wallace Reid) who has numerous affairs while his wife, Vivian (Gloria Swanson), finds a lover of her own.
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The Buccaneer 1938 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Margot Grahame, Akim Tamiroff, Walter Brennan, Anthony Quinn, Ian Keith, Spring Byington, Douglass Dumbrille, Robert Barrat
Pirate Jean Lafitte (Fredric March) allies with the United States in the War of 1812 and is able to beat the British on the high seas. Pretty good; typical DeMille saga.
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Carmen 1915  N/R, 50 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid, Pedro de Cordoba, Horace B. Carpenter, William Elmer, Milton Brown, Jeanie Macpherson, Anita King, Raymond Hatton, Tex Driscoll
Cigarette factory worker Carmen (Geraldine Farrar) is arrested by Don Jose (Wallace Reid), but after he falls in love with beautiful Carmen, Don Jose sets her free. Now, Carmen runs off with a band of Gypsies, and she falls in love with toreador Escamillo (Pedro de Cordoba). Overcome by jealousy, Don Jose follows Carmen, confronts her at a Seville bullfight, and stabs her to death. This is an early Cecil B. DeMille classic.
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The Cheat 1915 N/R, 50 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Fannie Ward, Jack Dean, Sessue Hayakawa, James Neill, Yutaka Abe, Dana Ong, Hazel Childers, Arthur H. Williams, Lucien Littlefield, Raymond Hatton, Dick La Reno
This is a good, early Cecil B. DeMille film that involves Edith Hardy's (Fannie Ward) dilemma when she gambles away money destined for charity without her husband Richard's (Jack Dean) knowledge. Edith makes a deal with Tori (Sessue Hayakawa) to replace the money–all of which leads to a tragic end because Tori wants more than Edith realized for his investment.
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 Cleopatra 1934  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Gertrude Michael, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith, Irving Pichel, Ian Maclaren, John Carradine, Arthur Hohl, Edwin Maxwell, Eleanor Phelps, Leonard Mudie, William Farnum
Good performances enhance this excellent film that won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and was nominated for Best Picture. Claudette Colbert easily handles the title role of the seductive Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, who uses her wiles on the Roman emperor Julius Caesar (Warren William). Then, after Caesar is killed, she turns her attentions to Caesar's rival, Marc Antony (Henry Wilcoxon), and enters into a romance destined for tragedy.
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The Crusades 1935 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, Katherine DeMille, C. Aubrey Smith, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale, C. Henry Gordon, George Barbier, Montagu Love
In this Cecil B. DeMille historical epic, Richard the Lionhearted (Henry Wilcoxon) leads a crusade to the Holy Land to wrest control from the infidels.
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Don't Change Your Husband 1919  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Lew Cody, Sylvia Ashton, Theodore Roberts, Julia Faye, Irving Cummings, James Neill, Ted Shawn
Leila (Gloria Swanson) is frustrated with husband James' (Elliott Dexter) sloppy habits and workaholic attitude. So, she divorces him and marries playboy Schuyler (Lew Cody) who turns out to be a two-timer. Now, she tries to woo her ex-husband back.
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Four Frightened People 1934 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, William Gargan, Leo Carrillo, Tetsu Komai, Nella Walker, Chris-Pin Martin, Ethel Griffies, Joe De La Cruz
Abandoning ship because of an outbreak of the bubonic plague, survivors row ashore in lifeboats and then must pass the test of survival on a jungle island.
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The Golden Chance 1915 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Cleo Ridgeley, Wallace Reid, Horace B. Carpenter, Ernest Joy, Edythe Chapman, Raymond Hatton
Mary (Cleo Ridgely) takes a job as a seamstress to help make ends meet due to her husband Steve (Horace B. Carpenter) spending all their money on booze. When Mary's employer asks her to stand in for a prospective bride at a high society party, wealthy Roger Manning (Wallace Reid) falls for Mary. Steve comes up with a blackmailing scheme, but tragedy follows when he is killed. Now, Mary is free to wed Roger.
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The Greatest Show on Earth 1952  N/R, 151 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Gloria Grahame, James Stewart, Henry Wilcoxon, Lyle Bettger, John Ridgely, Edmond O'Brien, Dorothy Lamour, Lawrence Tierney, John Kellogg
This film walked away with the Academy Award for Best Picture. It contains all the glitter of the Big Top presented through a number of stories interwoven into the circus world. In one of them, James Stewart plays a man who finds safety while on the lam by disguising himself in clown make-up. Other tales involve Charlton Heston and Betty Hutton, whose egos must be overcome to attain love. Look for Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as spectators in the grandstand. The film was also won an Academy Award for Best Writing and was nominated for three others, including Best Director.
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The King of Kings 1927 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: H.B. Warner, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, Victor Varconi, Jacqueline Logan, William Boyd, Dorothy Comming, James Neill, Joseph Striker, Robert Edeson, Sidney D'Albrook, David Imboden, Charles Belcher, Clayton Packard, Robert Ellsworth
Cecil B. DeMille's silent epic film tells the story of Christ. The story begins with glamorous courtesan Mary Magdalene (Jacqueline Logan), who is upset with Judas (Joseph Schildkraut) and goes to Jesus (H.B. Warner) and repents her sins. The story then continues through Jesus' life, betrayal, Crucifixion, and Resurrection. Of interest is that the "Resurrection" scene is filmed in two-color Technicolor. This film was remade in 1961.
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Male and Female 1919 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Mildred Reardon, Bebe Daniels, Robert Cain, Julia Faye, Rhy Darby
Members of a shipwreck survive because they forget class distinctions and work as a unit; however, when they finally return to England all the old biases return. Watch for the scene in which a lion's paw rests on a woman's shoulder–one of the most memorable of Cecil B. DeMille's scenes.
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Manslaughter 1922 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Thomas Meighan, Leatrice Joy, Lois Wilson, John Miltern, George Fawcett, Julia Faye, Edythe Chapman, Jack Mower, Dorothy Cumming, Raymond Hatton
Society deb Lydia (Leatrice Joy) is involved in a reckless driving incident in which a policeman is killed. She is prosecuted –the D.A. is her fiance (Thomas Meighan)–sent to prison, learns her lesson, and reforms.
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 North West Mounted Police 1940 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster, George Bancroft, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney Jr., Regis Toomey, Richard Denning, Rod Cameron
Dusty Rivers (Gary Cooper) is a Texas Ranger who ends up working with the Canadian Mounties when he heads into their territory while on the trail of his man.
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Old Wives for New 1918 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Elliott Dexter, Sylvia Ashton, Florence Vidor, Helen Jerome Eddy, Wanda Hawley, Theodore Roberts, Marcia Manon, Julia Faye, J. Parks Jones, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Tully Marshall, Edna Mae Cooper
Charles (Elliott Dexter) grows tired of his overweight, lazy wife Sophy (Sylvia Ashton) and looks for a new woman. He falls for Juliet (Florence Vidor), but when Juliet becomes involved in a murder case, Charles dumps her and eventually marries Viola (Marcia Manon), who leaves him for his personal secretary. Eventually, Charles returns to Sophy who takes him in.
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The Plainsman 1936 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Anthony Quinn, George "Gabby" Hayes, John Miljan, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey, Fuzzy Knight
There is more myth than truth to this film, but it is still delightful fare. Gary Cooper is great in the role of Wild Bill Hickok, and he is backed up in the equally good performance by Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane.
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Reap the Wild Wind 1942 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward, Charles Bickford, Hedda Hopper, Lynne Overman, Walter Hampden
Set among the shipping and salvage world off the Georgia coast, this is the story of Jack Martin (John Wayne) and the owner of a shipping company (Ray Milland) who vie for the attentions of Loxi Claiborne (Paulette Goddard).
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Samson and Delilah 1949 N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon, Fay Holden, Julia Faye, Russ Tamblyn, Moroni Olsen, John Miljan
Femme fatale Delilah (Hedy Lamarr) seduces Samson (Victor Mature), and the result is destruction and death. This film won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration and Costuming.
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The Sign of the Cross 1932 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton, Ian Keith, Harry Beresford, John Carradine, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Arthur Hohl, Nat Pendleton
The fiddling of Roman Emperor Nero (Charles Laughton) while Rome burns and Christians seeking religious freedom while facing the threat of being fed to the lions are depicted in this Cecil B. DeMille drama, which was cut down and reissued in 1944 with a World War II prologue added.
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Son of Paleface 1952 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western / Action / Romance
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers, Douglass Dumbrille, Bill Williams, Harry von Zell, Iron Eyes Cody, Cecil B. DeMille, Bing Crosby, Lloyd Corrigan, Paul E. Burns, William "Wee Willie" Davis, Charles Cooley
This sequel to "Paleface" adds Roy Rogers to the cast and is even funnier than the original. Bob Hope plays Peter "Junior" Potter who is the son of his original character. He heads West to claim his inheritance, but it appears that all he has been left with are debts. When he tells the creditors that his father's gold is hidden, he gains the attention of saloon owner Mike (Jane Russell) and federal agent Roy Barton (Roy Rogers) who is on Mike's trail believing that she is the leader of a gang of bandits. A highlight: Bob Hope and Trigger share the same bed!
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The Squaw Man 1918 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Elliott Dexter, Ann Little, Katherine MacDonald, Jack Holt, Thurston Hall, Tully Marshall, Herbert Standing, Noah Beery, Pat Moore, Helen Dunbar
This is the second filming (of three) of this Cecil B. DeMille story about Jim Wynnegate (Elliott Dexter) who takes the rap for his cousin on an embezzlement charge and leaves England for Wyoming. There he saves the life of an Indian girl (Ann Little) from the clutches of villain Cash Hawkins (Jack Holt). After Wynnegate marries her, his cousin's wife, Diana (Katherine MacDonald), arrives with the news that the cousin is dead. Knowing that Jim took the rap because he loved Diana, his wife commits suicide to allow Jim and Diana to reunite, which is what they do. They head back to England where he assumes the position of Earl of Kerhill. A better film than the earlier one, showing the beginnings of DeMille's desire to make extravaganzas.
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The Squaw Man 1931 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Warner Baxter, Paul Cavanagh, Lupe Velez, Eleanor Boardman, Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, J. Farrell MacDonald, Dickie Moore, Julia Faye, C. Aubrey Smith
This remake of Cecil B. DeMille's 1914 and 1918 silent films is excellent fare as it again relates the tale of racial biases encountered in settling the Old West.
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The Squaw Man 1914 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Dustin Farnum, Monroe Salisbury, Winifred Kingston, Red Wing, William Elmer, Foster Knox, Hal Roach, Joseph Singleton, Dick La Reno, Fred Montague
This is the first film of feature length made in Hollywood. The story involves settling the West and the love affair between Wyoming rancher James Wynnegate (Dustin Farnum) and Native American Nat-U-Rich (Red Wing). This film was made again by Cecil B. DeMille in 1918 and 1931.
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The Story of Dr. Wassell 1944  N/R, 140 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, Dennis O'Keefe, Carl Esmond, Carol Thurston, Paul Kelly, Elliott Reid, Stanley Ridges, Philip Ahn
In this disappointing Cecil B. DeMille offering, Dr. Corydon Wassell (Gary Cooper) works tirelessly to save humanity during World War II.
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Sunset Blvd. 1950 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Sunset Boulevard
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Cecil B. DeMille, Jack Webb, Fred Clark, Hedda Hopper, Buster Keaton, Lloyd Gough, Franklyn Farnum, Larry J. Blake, Charles Dayton, Anna Q. Nisson, H.B. Warner
Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) is an aging ex-Hollywood star who longs for a comeback. Aspiring screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) recognizes her weaknesses and moves into her home by flattering her with stories of her future regained stardom. In addition to three Oscars (Best Writing, Art Direction/Set Decoration, and Musical Score), the film received eight nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (Holden), Actress (Swanson), Supporting Actress and Actor (Nancy Olson and Erich von Stroheim), and Director.
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 The Ten Commandments 1923 N/R, 146 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Theodore Roberts, Charles de Rochefort, Estelle Taylor, James Neill, Richard Dix, Leatrice Joy, Julia Faye, Rod La Rocque, Nita Naldi, Noble Johnson
This very successful silent film is an early version of the Biblical story of Moses leading the children of Israel out of Egypt and bondage. Several scenes, including the parting of the Red Sea, are shot in two-color Technicolor.
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 The Ten Commandments 1956 N/R, 219 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Edward G. Robinson, John Derek, Vincent Price, Anne Baxter, Yvonne De Carlo, John Carradine, Cedric Hardwicke, Debra Paget
This is an extravaganza to end all extravaganzas. Moses (Charlton Heston) leads the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land. Special effects are great in this Cecil B. DeMille film, his second go-around with this story. There were seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. The Special Effects won an Oscar.
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This Day and Age 1933 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Charles Bickford, Judith Allen, Richard Cromwell, Edward J. Nugent, Ben Alexander, Harry Green, Fuzzy Knight, Samuel S. Hinds, Wade Boteler, Billy Gilbert
Following a gangster killing, local teens take the law into their own hands and mete out justice. Interesting Cecil B. DeMille effort.
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Unconquered 1947 N/R, 135 min.
Genre: Western / Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Ward Bond, Virginia Grey, Lloyd Bridges, Marc Lawrence, Cecil Kellaway, C. Aubrey Smith, Virginia Campbell, Katherine DeMille, Henry Wilcoxon, Victor Varconi, Richard Gaines
During the French and Indian War, Abby Hale (Paulette Goddard) is sentenced to slavery in America. Slave master Martin Garth (Howard Da Silva) covets Abby and tries to buy her, but Captain Christopher Holden (Gary Cooper) outbids him. The treacherous Garth conspires with the Indians to rid the wilderness of the settlers, and, in turn, he will gain a monopoly on the fur trade. Many problems ensue and are settled before Abby and Holden realize that they are in love with each other and plan to live happily ever after. Another Cecil B. DeMille extravaganza.
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Union Pacific 1939 N/R, 135 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy, Anthony Quinn, Regis Toomey, Fuzzy Knight, Lon Chaney Jr.
This is a great action film about the building of America's first continental railroad; bigger than life in typical Cecil B. DeMille style.
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The Warrens of Virginia 1915 N/R, 50 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Blanche Sweet, House Peters, James Neill, Page Peters, Mabel Van Buren, Raymond Hatton, DeWitt Jennings, Lucien Littlefield, Milton Brown, Sydney Deane
Set during the Civil War, this is the story of the love affair of Southerner Agatha Warren (Blanche Sweet) and Yankee spy Ned Burton (House Peters) who relies on Agatha's attempts to save him from certain execution.
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Why Change Your Wife? 1920 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Bebe Daniels, Theodore Kosloff, Sylvia Ashton, Clarence Geldart, Mayme Kelso, Lucien Littlefield, Edna Mae Cooper, Jane Wolfe, William Boyd
Robert (Thomas Meighan) divorces his wife, Beth (Gloria Swanson), for another woman (Bebe Daniels) only to fall in love with Beth again at a summer resort.
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The Woman God Forgot 1917 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid, Raymond Hatton, Theodore Kosloff, Hobart Bosworth, Julia Faye
Set in the last moments of the Aztec Empire, Geraldine Farrar plays Teca–Montezuma's (Raymond Hatton) daughter. To save her mother, Alvarado (Wallace Reid), from certain death, Teca leads Cortez (Hobart Bosworth) and his invasion forces into the center of the Aztec world.
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| 1. The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
2. The Buccaneer (1938)
3. Carmen (1915)
4. The Cheat (1915)
5. Cleopatra (1934)
6. The Crusades (1935)
7. Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
8. Dynamite (1929)
9. Four Frightened People (1934)
10. The Golden Chance (1915)
11. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
12. Joan the Woman (1916)
13. The King of Kings (1927)
14. Male and Female (1919)
15. Manslaughter (1922)
16. North West Mounted Police (1940)
17. Old Wives for New (1918)
18. The Plainsman (1936)
19. Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
20. Samson and Delilah (1949)
21. The Sign of the Cross (1932)
22. Son of Paleface (1952)
23. The Squaw Man (1918)
24. The Squaw Man (1931)
25. The Squaw Man (1914)
26. The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
27. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
aka: Sunset Boulevard
28. The Ten Commandments (1923)
29. The Ten Commandments (1956)
30. This Day and Age (1933)
31. Unconquered (1947)
32. Union Pacific (1939)
33. The Warrens of Virginia (1915)
34. The Whispering Chorus (1918)
35. Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
36. The Woman God Forgot (1917)
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