Cecil B. DeMille honored at Screen Producers Guild banquet
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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Title supplied by cataloger. Photograph caption dated February 1, 1956 reads, "Milestone For DeMille - Thirty-two all-time stars whose film careers were boosted by Hollywood's elder statesman, Cecil B. DeMille, joined the 74-year-old veteran at the Screen Producers Guild Banquet at the Beverly Hilton Hotel where DeMille was honored with the coveted Screen Producers Guild Milestone Award for historic contribution to the American Motion Picture. Left to right, front row: Jesse L. Lasky (DeMille's first producer, 1913); Virginia Grey ("Unconquered," 1947); Loretta Young ("The Crusades," 1935); Julia Faye ("The Affairs of Anatol," 1921); Walter Brennan ("The Buccaneer," 1938); Jane Darwell ("Rose of the Rancho," 1914); Winifred Kingston ("The Squaw Man," 1913); Cecil B. DeMille; Barbara Stanwyck ("Union Pacific," 1939); Reignald Denny ("Madam Satan," 1930); Kathlyn Williams ("We Can't Have Everything," 1918); Claudette Colbert ("Sign of the Cross," 1945); Raymond Hatton ("Temptation," 1916); Susan Hayward ("Reap the Wild Wind," 1942); Katherine DeMille Quinn ("The Crusades," 1935); Beulah Bondi ("The Buccaneer," 1938); Eddie Quillan ("The Godless Girl," 1928). Left to right, back row: Rod LaRocque ("The Ten Commandments," 1923); Fredric March ("Sign of the Cross," 1945); Ben Alexander ("The Little American," 1917); Richard Cromwell ("This Day and Age," 1933); Ricardo Cortez ("Feet of Clay," 1924); Paul Kelly ("The Story of Dr. Wassell," 1944); Yul Brynner ("The Ten Commandments," 1956); Laraine Day ("The Story of Dr. Wassell," 1944); Charlton Heston ("The Ten Commandments," 1956); William Boyd ("The Volga Boatman," 1926); Lon Chaney Jr. ("Northwest Mounted Police," 1950); Gary Cooper ("The Plainsman," 1937); Ward Bond ("Unconquered," 1947); Anthony Quinn ("Union Pacific," 1939); Henry Wilcoxon ("The Crusades," 1935); James Stewart ("The Greatest Show on Earth," 1952)."
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1 photographic print :b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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