DeMille was also known for his extravagance and penchant for showing his audiences the everyday lives of the rich and glamorous (if you don’t believe me, here is proof!). As a director working for Paramount Studios, he had made a star out of Gloria Swanson with his popular risqué comedies such as Male and Female (1919) and Why Change Your Wife (1920). DeMille at the time was one of Hollywood’s biggest and most established directors. Long before the film was even released, the film was a HUGE DEAL! Cecil B. Let’s try to fix that by giving the film a second look. While many are familiar with this 1956 remake, largely thanks to ABC’s long-time tradition of showing the film Easter weekend, the 1923 original is often only a footnote when discussing its remake. Robinson, collecting critical acclaim and one of the largest box-office hauls in Hollywood history. He remade his 1923 immensely popular biblical epic The Ten Commandments in 1956 with the likes of Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, and Edward G.
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Perhaps no filmmaker found more critical and box-office success when remaking his own movie than Cecil B. Directors are lucky enough to make two separate movies let only the same movie twice! There are however a few examples of a director looking back to their earlier days to revamp and redo a past project: Abel Gance with J’Accuse (19), Alfred Hitchcock with The Man Who Knew Too Much (19), and Yasujiro Ozu’s with A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) and Floating Weeds (1959) just to name a few. It’s not very often that a filmmaker gets to remake his or her own movie.