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...greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling," said Cecil B. DeMille in a speech a few months before he died. Few men had changed that art as drastically as he. Story and song, play and pageant have always demanded that the audience's imagination fill out the scene; DeMille and his Hollywood disciples left nothing to the imagination. His life was dedicated to manufactured magnificence; the "epic" was his trademark in a world that would never match its image on his movie screens...
...when vigorous old (77) Cecil Blount DeMille died of a heart attack in Hollywood last week, the town that he had taught to operate on the grand scale buried him with uncommon dignity. Only a handful of mourners were at his grave. It was a modest exit for a showman whose 70 pictures have made more money* than any other movies ever filmed...
...Buccaneer started out as a Cecil B. DeMille remake of a Cecil B. DeMille version (1938) of the life of Jean Lafitte, the corsair who became the terror of the Western seas in the early years of the 19th century, then turned patriot and won pardon for his men by helping Andy Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans. But somewhere along the production line, C.B., now 77, gave the reins into younger hands. The picture was actually made by Producer Henry Wilcoxon, a onetime star (The Crusades) and longtime assistant of the great man, and by Actor Anthony Quinn...
...closely guarded technical area of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory is a building on the mysteriously named DP Site. In one of its rooms Technician Cecil W. Kelley, 38, was working alone last week, adding a solvent to a 225-gal. tank. It was a routine part of a process to recover plutonium from waste materials. During his ten years at Los Alamos he had done the same chore about 75 times. This time was different. When he turned on the stirring apparatus, a bright blue flash bloomed out of the tank...
...film is said to be based on the life of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary. But somehow, as tricked up and blooped out to fill the CinemaScope screen, the woman's simple story comes to seem rather like a Cecil B. DeMille version of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. The heroine (Bergman) is a London parlormaid who announces one day to her employer that "God wants me to go to China." The man is so startled that he lets himself be persuaded to help her get there, even though the regular missionary organizations have rejected...