“The King of Kings” (1927) by Cecil B. [Video]

Cecil B.

Demille was part of the Hollywood Masonic Lodge, & co-founder of the 1st production company in Hollywood (land bought by Jews around the turn of the 20th century).

His parents Henry C.

DeMille and Beatrice DeMille were playwrights.

His father died when he was 12, and his mother supported the family by opening a school for girls and a theatrical company.

Too young to enlist in the Spanish-American War, Cecil followed his brother William C.

De Mille to the New York Academy of Dramatic Arts, making his stage debut in 1900.

For twelve years he was actor/manager of his mother's theatrical company.

In 1913, Jesse L.

Lasky, Samuel Goldwyn and DeMille formed the Lasky Film Company (which years later evolved into Paramount Pictures), and the next year went west to California and produced the successful six reeler, The Squaw Man (1914), of historical significance as the first feature length film produced in Hollywood.

He …