Books on DeMille
More than fifty books about Cecil B. DeMille have been published in the last ninety years. The books shown here are biographies that utilized the De Mille Archives. The books below deal in part with DeMille but are recognized references.
Cecil B. DeMille: The Art of the Hollywood Epic
Cecil B. DeMille: The Art of the Hollywood Epic uses unseen art in the De Mille Archives to illustrate DeMille’s career achievements. The book features concept paintings by Dan Sayre Groesbeck and Boris Leven; costume sketches by Travis Banton and Mitchell Leisen; and photographic portraits by Edward S. Curtis, George Hurrell, and Yousuf Karsh.
Cecilia de Mille Presley shares her reminiscences of working on her grandfather’s films. Mark A. Vieira’s narrative includes previously unpublished archival information and his photographs of DeMille artifacts.
Biographies
The Autobiography of Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille, with Donald Hayne
Prentice-Hall, 1959
Cecil B. DeMille
Charles Higham
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1973
The Register of the Cecil B. DeMille Archives
James V. D’Arc, Editor
Brigham Young University Press, 1991
Online Register of the Cecil B. DeMille Archives, 1863-1983
L’Ereditá DeMille
Paolo Cherchi Usai
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, 1991
Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era
Sumiko Higashi
University of California Press, 1994
Written in Stone: Making Cecil B. DeMille’s Epic, The Ten Commandments
Katherine Orrison
Vestal Press, 1999
Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood
Robert S. Birchard
The University Press of Kentucky, 2004
Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille
Scott Eyman
Simon and Schuster, 2005
Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist
Kevin Brianton
The University Press of Kentucky, 2016
More Books About Cecil B. DeMille
- Behind the Screen. Samuel Goldwyn. George H. Doran Co., 1923
- Bulls, Balls, Bicycles, and Actors. Charles Bickford. Eriksson, 1965
- Dance to the Piper. Agnes de Mille. Little, Brown, and Company, 1951
- The DeMilles: An American Family. Anne Edwards. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988
- Destined for Hollywood: The Art of Dan Sayre Groesbeck. Robert Henning. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2001
- The Films of Cecil B. DeMille. Gene Ringgold and DeWitt Bodeen. Citadel Press, 1969
- Goldwyn: A Biography. Scott Berg. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989
- Hollywood Saga. William C. de Mille. E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1939
- I Blow My Own Horn. Jesse L. Lasky, with Don Weldon. Doubleday, 1957
- Lionheart in Hollywood: The Autobiography of Henry Wilcoxon. Henry Wilcoxon and Katherine Orrison. Scarecrow Press, 1991
- Mitchell Leisen: Hollywood Director. David Chierichetti. Photoventures Press, 1995
- The Parade’s Gone By. Kevin Brownlow. Alfred A. Knopf, 1968
- The Public Is Never Wrong: The Autobiography of Adolph Zukor. Adolph Zukor, with Dale Kramer. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1953
- Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood. Mark A. Vieira. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999
- Speak to Me, Dance With Me. Agnes de Mille Little, Brown, and Company, 1973
- Swanson on Swanson. Gloria Swanson. Random House, 1980
- Whatever Happened to Hollywood? Jesse L. Lasky Jr. Funk & Wagnall’s, 1973
- Yes, Mr. DeMille: A Humorous and Candid Appraisal of an Extraordinary Showman. Phil Koury. Van Rees Press, 1959