1. Cecil B. DeMille cartoonic portrait
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2. Stills from Old Wives for New
In 1918 Cecil B. De Mille made a film that would change his career’s trajectory: Old Wives for New. At the time, this romantic drama that seemed risqué in its casual depiction of adultery, gold-diggers, and especially divorce as creating a happy outcome. Up to that point De Mille had been working in a whole range of genres, creating imaginative films that helped define the classical style. The success of Old Wives for New led him to specialize in spicy romances known for their haute couture costumes.

3. Still from Old Wives for New, 1918 Film-maker: Cecil B. DeMille
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4. Jesse L. Lasky
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5. Jesse L. Lasky
Mr. Lasky worked his way into theatrical production and made a name for himself by 1913, when his brother-in-law Sam Goldwyn (then known as Goldfish) pursuaded him to form the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. They hired Cecil B. DeMille, a first time film director, to go out west to shoot their first feature. DeMille moved the Lasky company into a barn in a suburb of Los Angeles called Hollywood. Thus the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company became the first permanent feature film company actually located in the town of Hollywood.1
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6. Another of DeMille’s films
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7. Why Change Your Wife Stills
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8. Another Why Change Your Wife Still
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9. Art Deco Style
Art Deco was a popular international art design movement from 1925 until the 1940s, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film. At the time, this style was seen as elegant, glamorous, functional and modern.
The movement was a mixture of many different styles and movements of the early 20th century, including Neoclassical, Constructivism, Cubism, Modernism, Art Nouveau, and Futurism. Its popularity peaked in Europe during the Roaring Twenties and continued strongly in the United States through the 1930s. Although many design movements have political or philosophical roots or intentions, Art Deco was purely decorative.
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10. The Squaw Man
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11. The Squaw Man
The Squaw Man (1914), also known as "The White Man" in the UK, was the first feature-length movie made specifically in Hollywood (although not the first to be made in the Los Angeles area). Originally a 1906 stage play produced and directed by and starring William Faversham, the title went on to become the only movie successfully filmed three times by the same producer-director, the legendary Cecil B. DeMille in his first assignment. He helmed another silent version in 1918, and a talkie remake in 1931.
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