I took a cut in salary to work for DeMille; a lot of actors did; he seemed to expect it as a kind of due. There was only one DeMille and there wasn't an actor in the world who didn't want to work for him just once, however short the salary or tall the corn. I could still picture Angela Lansbury coyly running around in chiffon skivvies, letting arrows fly at the back end of a lion skin tacked on a patio wall in Samson and Delilah. I always thought that looked like good fun.
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Cecil B. DeMille was a 19th-century American film director, producer and actor. Cecil Blount DeMille, often known in popular culture as Mr. DeMille, was an American filmmaker and actor. Read more on Wikipedia →

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