Reality
DeMille used to have a love/hate relationship with his movie, that was one of the first “iconic” films made in Hollywood. He’d mainly orchestrated the growth of a city that was both prohibitively expensive to relocate and incalculably valuable to abandon. Worse yet, he was completely aware of the truth of the situation.
Reality
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A Decision Was Made
Hollywood filmmakers recycled sets and props to save funds on production. However, DeMille, ever the artist, was not about to allow another filmmaker to actually make money from his work…and so he made a silly decision.
A Decision Was Made
