Item Detail
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30021
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1
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4
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English
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Cecil B. DeMille and David O. McKay—an Unexpected Friendship
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BYU Studies
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Winter 2018
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57
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4
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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78-104
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"World-renowned filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille and David O. McKay, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, developed an unexpected friendship when they were introduced by Latter-day Saint painter Arnold Friberg, who had been commissioned by DeMille as the set painter for his epic The Ten Commandments. The two men developed a mutual respect and admiration for each other, as evidenced in their correspondence with each other and McKay’s invitation to DeMille to be the commencement speaker at Brigham Young University’s April 1957 graduation exercises. McKay also visited the set of The Ten Commandments in Hollywood and gave DeMille and some of his production team a personal tour of the newly completed Los Angeles Temple. The two men found common ground in respect for God’s law and their efforts to spread God’s law to benefit mankind." [Publisher]
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Arnold Friberg, Artist : His Life, His Philosophy and His Works
A Victim of the Mormons and The Danites : Images and Relics from Early Twentieth-Century Anti-Mormon Silent Films
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Two Articles : 'Darryl F. Zanuck's Brigham Young : A Film in Context,' and ''So Let it be Written . . .'--the Creation of Cecil B. DeMille's Autobiography'