While we credit David Wark Griffith with creating the visual language of filmmaking in America – the father of Hollywood as a cultural force, a purveyor of dreams, a life style – is Cecil B. De Mille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959). In the teens De Mille came West with his friend and colleague from Broadway,  Jesse Lasky. They rented a barn… and put on a show. The Squaw Man: At the time Hollywood was sleepy town of […]

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