Hollywood Heritage Newsletter Birchard, an award-winning film editor and historian, provides 70 short essays focusing on the films made by DeMille during his five decades in Hollywood.... Will make a welcome addition to film history libraries.
~Journal of the West
It's a fascinating insight into the inner workings of DeMille's seventy films with such a wealth of evidence and the kind of precision that gives the reader real confidence in the trustworthiness of what they are being told.
~Bible Films Blog
Far and away the best film book published so far this year.
~National Board of Review
Birchard has unearthed a treasure trove of details regarding DeMille's career, including the early history of Paramount Pictures that paralleled his own. What a valuable contribution to film scholarship!
~Leonard Maltin
Solid, well-researched film history—the way it ought to be—refreshingly free of the jargon that has for so long demeaned our craft.
~Kevin Brownlow, coproducer and director of Hollywood—The Pioneers and author of The Parade's Gone By
A detailed study of DeMille's films, their production and reception, their profits and (occasional) losses. [Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood] provides insight into how Hollywood began.
~Shepherd Express
A fine example of a film historian looking again at the sources to reveal a more nuanced picture.
~Cinema History Online
Birchard's narrative is strengthened by his reliance upon primary sources in addition to DeMille's personal archives. This book is sure to be enjoyed by fans of early Hollywood and DeMille's many endeavors as a filmmaker.
~Hometowns to Hollywood
Whether you're a lifelong DeMille devotee or have never seen his work beyond an Easter screening of Ten Commandments, there is a real treasure trove of information packed into the book's 400 pages (don't forget the endnotes!).
~Hollywood North Magazine
DeMille died in his home on January 31, 1959, his place in the pantheon of Hollywood greats assured. Birchard, in his informative book, gives him the credit he so richly deserves.
~Sheldon Kirshner Journal