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The festivities include Graham classics and a re-envisioned “Rodeo” by Agnes de Mille.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
Along with Graham and de Mille, the long list of those who taught and performed there includes Doris Humphrey, who directed its dance center in the 1940s.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
Historian Charlotte de Mille said he would probably be "surprised and delighted" it is now one of the county's most famous buildings.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2023
In the 1950s and 1960s, choreographer Agnes de Mille advocated for copyrights specific to choreography because she got very limited royalties for her work on the hit musical "Oklahoma!"
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2021
If Jennifer were a dance, she would be the Agnes de Mille dream sequence from Oklahoma!
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
During his Hollywood run, he was commissioned to make shoes, among them 12,000 pairs of sandals for the 1923 movie “The Ten Commandments,” directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2019
The award, which is currently unnamed, will act as the TV equivalent of the Globes’ Cecil B De Mille Award, which recognises “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment”.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2018
De Mille had a habit of constantly revising movement material, reusing it in work after work until it attained a final form that satisfied her.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2011
There are classics by directors who include Cecil B. De Mille and Sam Wood and gems starring such actors as Mary Pickford and Sessue Hayakawa.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2011
De Mille who wrote "Strongheart" for Robert Edeson, and who is an instructor in the Empire School of Acting, sometimes known as the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various
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