Hollywood Saga.

DEMILLE, William [Cecil B. DeMille].

$1,250.00

Item Number: 145796

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1939.

First edition of this biography of screenwriter and film director of William C. DeMille, older brother of Cecil B. DeMille, who started as a playwright before following his brother to Hollywood. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Cecil B. DeMille on the frontispiece inscribed by William C. DeMille to Emma Obitz, his long-time housekeeper, dated Oct. 9, 1939, on the title page.  Foreword by John Erskine. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

Between 1914 and 1958, Cecille B. DeMille made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. His silent films included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.