Paramount Pictures Corporation motion picture stills for The Ten Commandments, 1956

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Summary

Creators:
Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)
Abstract:
The motion picture Ten Commandments (1956) was a Paramount Pictures Corporation, Cecil B.DeMille production. The collection consists of black and white stills and a typescript revised script dated 6 July 1956.
Extent:
1.7 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Paramount Pictures Corporation motion picture stills for The Ten commandments (Collection 189). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

The collections consists of 800-plus black and white motion pictures stills for the 1956 version of The Ten Commandments. Additionally included is typescript, revised as filmed The Ten Commandments script, dated July 6, 1956.

Biographical / historical:

The 1956 Paramount production of The Ten commandments was Cecil B. De Mille's last film and is best known for its Academy Award winning special effects. The film was based on the books Based on the books Prince of Egypt by Dorothy Clarke Wilson (Philadelphia, 1949), The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage by Rev. Joseph Holt Ingraham (New York, 1859) and On Eagle's Wings by Rev. Arthur E. Southon (London, 1937) and tells the story of Moses and the Jewish Exodus from Egypt. The cast featured among others, Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Yul Brynner, Edward G. Robinson, and Yvonne De Carlo. Screenplay credits include Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., Jack Gariss, and Fredric M. Frank. Art directors were Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler, and Albert Nozaki and cinematographer Loyal Griggs with additional photography by J. Peverell Marley, John Warren, and Wallace Kelley. The editor was Anne Bauchens. The working title of the film was Prince of Egypt. The Ten Commandments was previously filmed in 1923 and directed DeMille.

Acquisition information:
Source and date of receipt unknown.
Processing information:

Processed by UCLA Library Performing Arts Special Collections staff, pre-1999.

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Physical location:
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Restrictions:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Paramount Pictures Corporation motion picture stills for The Ten commandments (Collection 189). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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