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Fanfair
Through DeMille
Fanfair
Through DeMille
Through DeMille
'All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up," said Gloria Swanson in 1950. This month, the close-up will be of Cecil B. DeMille himself, when Christie's auctions off more than two hundred lots of the mogul's estate (including a Norman Rockwell portrait of Victor Mature as Samson in DeMille's Samson and Delilah, and DeMille's Gothic Revival desk) and Harry N. Abrams publishes Anne Edwards's The DeMilles: An American Family. The book chronicles Hollywood history through the director's sprawling career, but also charts the seminal choreographic work of Cecil's niece Agnes, and the rest of the enterprising clan.
ANGELA JANKLOW
