On this day in history, Cecil B. DeMille was born in Ashfield, Mass., in 1881.
DeMille produced and directed 70 films, and is perhaps best-known for his over-the-top productions of Cleopatra, The Crusades, and The Ten Commandments (which was a remake of a silent version of the film he produced and directed in the 1920s).
Pulp writer Harold Lamb was a technical adviser to DeMille, and the University of Nebraska Press has published several collections of Lamb’s short stories, including Swords from the Desert and Swords from the West, which are new this fall. Many of Lamb’s stories, like many of DeMille’s movies, are set in biblical times in exotic locales, and feature brave warriors, shrewd heroines and cunning villains; one can imagine Elizabeth Taylor playing a character in a Lamb book.
For a complete list of UNP Harold Lamb titles click here. For a more comprehensive biography of DeMille, visit History.com. And for a rundown of DeMille’s movies, visit his IMDB page.
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