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ReviewBiography and memoir
Chaplin vs America — red scares, scandal and a star in exile
...Eyman is a veteran film critic whose previous biographical subjects include Mary Pickford, John Ford and Cecil B DeMille....
December 12, 2023
ReviewAlbums
Massenet: Ariane presents a vivid operatic spectacle
...Cecil B DeMille would have been hard put to stage an epic on this scale and that is assuming there were three singers ready to take on its hugely challenging principal roles....
August 25, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Chess
Chess solutions
...Chess: 2344 Four-time Australian champion Cecil Purdy composed this puzzle and gave the answer as one and three-quarter moves....
April 9, 2024
ReviewFilm
Five stars for The Fabelmans — Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated memoir of his youth
...At five, the first movie he sees is Cecil B DeMille’s lurid The Greatest Show on Earth; it leaves part of him forever petrified....
January 26, 2023
Film
James Wong Howe — unsung hero of Golden Age Hollywood
...B DeMille, and the Japanese-born Henry Kotani....
April 27, 2022
HTSI
Meet the unsung stars of American fashion
...Vaquera are fantasists in the vein of American greats such as Cecil B DeMille rather than Tommy Hilfiger....
September 6, 2021
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ObituarySean Connery
Sean Connery, actor, 1930-2020
...Other honours and accolades have included a Bafta special award in 1990, the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh (1991) and, in the US, the Cecil B DeMille award at the 1996 Golden Globes....
October 31, 2020
FT GlobetrotterSport and the city: a fitness guide to Hong Kong
Peak performance: the glorious highs of Hong Kong’s trail runs
...Route B: For those who love hill training, start at the Sai Ying Pun MTR station and run all the way up to Victoria Peak....
December 28, 2020
Chess
Chess solutions
...Chess: 2344 Four-time Australian champion Cecil Purdy composed this puzzle and gave the answer as one and three-quarter moves....
May 26, 2020
Retail & Consumer industry
Oprah for President chatter lifts Weight Watchers
...Ms Winfrey, who was honoured with the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement, delivered a stirring speech that touched on race and sexual harassment that was seen as a call to action....
January 8, 2018
Alex von Tunzelmann
Vanity Fair: a period drama for a millennial age
...Cecil B DeMille’s 1956 version of The Ten Commandments has little insight into historical origins of its biblical story, but is a remarkable production in the context of the cold war....
September 2, 2018
Jo Ellison
Macron, Oprah and why we should embrace the hug
...Oprah Winfrey has built a multibillion-dollar empire on the strength of hers: according to actor Reese Witherspoon, who presented the 64-year-old media mogul with the Cecil B DeMille award at the Golden...
July 18, 2018
US & Canadian companies
Amazon to move TV, film production to historic Culver Studios
...The relocation of Amazon Studios from its Santa Monica headquarters to the Culver Studios — whose former owners include RKO, Howard Hughes and Cecil B DeMille — will give the company room to expand its staff...
October 30, 2017
World
Oprah galvanises Golden Globes with call to arms against abuse
...“I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon,” she said in her acceptance speech for a Cecil B DeMille lifetime achievement award. ”When that new day finally dawns...
January 8, 2018
The Art of PersuasionSam Leith
Oprah Winfrey’s speech was a masterstroke of delivery
...Ms Winfrey’s acceptance speech for her Cecil B DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes last night hit both of those targets centre-bull....
January 8, 2018
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
US & Canadian companies
Apple eyes iconic studio as base for Hollywood production push
...The iPhone maker is in discussions to move its original content division to The Culver Studios, whose former owners include RKO, Howard Hughes and Cecil B DeMille....
September 2, 2017
Robin Lane Fox
Death by violets
...Their look has shaped an entire filmic vision of the ancient Roman world, from Cecil B DeMille to Ridley Scott. Alma-Tadema is widely called the most archaeological of artists....
September 27, 2017
Life & Arts
Trump hits back at Streep over Golden Globes attack
...Ms Streep, who is Hollywood’s most decorated and revered actress with three Oscar wins, was accepting the Cecil B DeMille award for lifetime achievement when she tore into Mr Trump....
January 9, 2017
Letter
Notorious building turned to good account
...There is also a memorial plaque on the front of the building — for the slave labourers of IG Farben and those who had perished by Zyklon B gas....
January 5, 2016
Life & Arts
Roads to recovery
...The short B-road looping round the north-easternmost point of Northern Ireland looked innocuous on the map. On bikes it was anything but....
June 29, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
‘West of Eden: An American Place’, by Jean Stein
...He also understood the potency of movies, having tried in 1925 to coax Cecil B DeMille into directing a biopic that would paint him as an American hero....
February 5, 2016
Life & Arts
‘Son of Saul’: framing the unspeakable
...Who is to say that we’re not condemned, we inmates of Concentration Camp Earth, to keep turning and turning this Holocaust story, like the slaves pushing the milling stone in a Cecil B DeMille epic?...
December 4, 2015
Life & Arts
Upcoming concerts and festivals
...Mike Hobart hideawaylive.co.uk, 020 8835 7070 Festive Gathering, December 21, Cecil Sharp House, London Musicians, dancers and storytellers fill Cecil Sharp House, the headquarters of the English Folk...
December 19, 2014
Life & Arts
Women and Hollywood
...Though Cecil B DeMille’s The Affairs of Anatol (1921) features a delightful dark-eyed vamp, Satan Synne (Bebe Daniels), who leads the feckless hero into her boudoir (the “Devil’s Cloister”, stocked with...
October 9, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Carsick’, by John Waters
...He is a cult movie maker – Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, Cecil B Demented – and the owner of an unimprovable pencil-thin moustache....
November 14, 2014

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