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1913 *SIGNED/RARE* Beatrice DeMille on Offices of Cecil B DeMille Letterhead
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1913 *SIGNED* Beatrice DeMille on Offices of Cecil B DeMille LetterheadAddressed to Joseph Noel. The DeMille's produced one play of Joseph Noel's. Joseph Noels most famous book is
Footloose in Arcadia, A Personal Record of Jack London, George Sterling andAmbrose Bierce
Matilda Beatrice deMille (January 30, 1853 - October 8, 1923)
was known as a play broker, screenwriter, playwright, theater actress and entrepreneur. Beatice DeMille was born and grew up in Liverpool, England before emigrating to New York with her family in 1871. Married to Henry DeMille, an aspiring actor in Brooklyn, New York, in 1876, she had three children; her first son William C. deMille followed by Cecil B. DeMille in 1881 and daughter, Agnes Beatrice in 1891 who died four years later of spinal meningitis
Together, Beatrice deMille and Henry deMille worked as traveling actors in numerous theatrical productions.In 1900, Beatrice deMille collaborated with Harriet Ford to write her first published play "The Greatest Thing in The World" - direction by Liebler & Company - and performed on Broadway and in Washington DC.
Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959)
was an American filmmaker. Between 1913 and 1956, he made seventy features, both silent and sound films.He is acknowledged as a founding father of the Hollywood film industry, and the most commercially successful producer-director in cinema history. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. He made silent films of every genre: social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.
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