"At the age of 63, after 44 years in show business, and ten years as director of the Lux Radio Theater , Cecil B. De Mille is still producing. He can't stop and he probably never will. He is first, last and all the time a showman. The show business is in his blood, and whether he is on a set or taking his leisure at home, his heart and mind are in the theater. He loves to have people around him so that he can play a part, for consciously or unconsciously, he is always acting... C.B.'s father was an actor and playwright, and later a partner of David Belasco. His mother was an actress, and later a very successful play agent." Illustrated with four photographs, the article pertains primarily to his earlier Hollywood triumphs, but points out that the Lux Radio Theater attracted an audience that numbered thirty million.
Read about the radio program that was produced by the WPA writers and actors branch in order to celebrate American diversity; click here.
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