Preparing our Letters of Transit for TCM Classic Cruise

5 December 2011

Preparing our Letters of Transit for TCM Classic Cruise

Category: Film | Tags: ben mankiewicz, ernest borgnine, eva marie saint, gentlemen prefer blondes, hollywood history, jack cole, norman jewison, robert osborne, scott eyman, tcm, tcm classic cruise, tcm cruise, tippi hedren

Collage with a cruise ship, vintage letters and stamps

Preparing for TCM Classic Cruise means organizing our Letters of Transport! [...]

10 September 2011

The Agnes & Cecil Show

Category: Dance, Film | Tags: agnes de mille, cecil b. demille, cleopatra, empire of dreams, scott eyman

Scott Eyman’s accounting, in “Empire of Dreams,” of the dissolution of the relationship between Cecil. B. DeMille and his niece, dancer/choreographer Agnes De Mille. [...]

8 September 2011

Eyman hits a bull’s eye; his “Empire of Dreams” wins prestigious theater book award

Category: Film, Language & ideas | Tags: cecil b. demille, cecilia demille presley, empire of dreams, hollywood history, scott eyman

Scott Eyman recognized for scholarship in his Cecil B. DeMille biography, “Empire of Dreams,” wins Theater Library Association’s “Richard Wall Memorial Award.” [...]

28 September 2010

C.B.’s captivating “Cleopatra”

Category: Film | Tags: cecil b. demille, claudette colbert, cleopatra, egyptian theater, hollywood history, leonard maltin, scott eyman, travis banton

We just loved Cecil B. DeMille’s Cleopatra (Paramount, 1934), and we loved it even more projected onto the Egyptian Theater’s humongous screen. Scott Eyman, author of the new DeMille biography, “Empire of Dreams,” was on hand to discuss the film with critic Leonard Maltin. [...]

31 August 2010

Cleopatra reclaims the Egyptian Theater

Category: Film | Tags: cecil b. demille, egyptian theater, fashion, hollywood history, leonard maltin, scott eyman, travis banton

Annex - Colbert, Claudette (Cleopatra)_01

On September 22, following a screening of DeMille’s naughty Claudette Colbert vehicle, “Cleopatra,” (1934), Leonard Maltin will ‘view author Scott Eyman about his new biography, “Emperor of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille.” [...]