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Cecil B DeMille 1944 The Sign of The Cross Fredric March * Elissa Landi Colbert
Cecil B DeMille 1944 The Sign of The Cross Fredric March * Elissa Landi Colbert
Cecil B DeMille 1944 The Sign of The Cross Fredric March * Elissa Landi Colbert
Cecil B DeMille 1944 The Sign of The Cross Fredric March * Elissa Landi Colbert
Cecil B DeMille 1944 The Sign of The Cross Fredric March * Elissa Landi Colbert
Cecil B DeMille 1944 The Sign of The Cross Fredric March * Elissa Landi Colbert
Cecil B DeMille 1944 The Sign of The Cross Fredric March * Elissa Landi Colbert
Cecil B DeMille 1944 The Sign of The Cross Fredric March * Elissa Landi Colbert
Cecil B DeMille 1944 The Sign of The Cross Fredric March * Elissa Landi Colbert
Cecil B DeMille 1944 The Sign of The Cross Fredric March * Elissa Landi Colbert

Cecil B DeMille 1944 The Sign of The Cross Fredric March * Elissa Landi Colbert

$ 14.78

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    Description

    Fredric March * Elissa Landi * Claudette Colbert * Charles Laughton in  "The Sign of The Cross " - Paramount presents Cecil B DeMille  1944 !!!
    .  Lobby card is in very good condition!!!!..  minor wear around edges    Pleas
    e view photos............
    DeMille's eye for talent gave a boost to the careers of two actors in The Sign of the Cross. Before production began, DeMille had been in London and had seen Charles Laughton in a play. Although Laughton was unknown in the United States, DeMille thought he would be perfect to play Nero, and brought him to Hollywood, where The Sign of the Cross became Laughton's first American film.
    While on the Paramount lot, DeMille noticed a young contract actress, Claudette Colbert, whose films he called "fluffy, lightheaded stuff." The director approached her and asked, "how would you like to play the wickedest woman in the world?" "I'd love it!" Colbert replied, and she played the empress, wonderfully. But it wasn't always easy. The famous scene in which Poppaea bathes in asses' milk took several days to shoot. DeMille, of course, announced to the press that real asses' milk was being used, though it was probably powdered cow's milk. The milk was left standing in the tub overnight, and by the second day, it had turned to cheese under the hot lights. The stench was overwhelming. Colbert nearly fainted from the odor.
    Lions devouring Christians, nudity, homosexuality, orgies, murder...there was plenty for even the weakest censors to object to in The Sign of the Cross. But DeMille refused to make cuts, and as he had done so often in the past, he prevailed. Like most of DeMille's biblical epics, The Sign of the Cross was a big, brash, vulgar hit, even in the depths of the Depression. DeMille was back on top, and he would remain at Paramount for the rest of his life and career.
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