It included a 120 foot-tall temple, five enormous sphinxes, a 100-foot Great Gate, statues of the Pharaoh, and a 750-foot long city wall which deMille insisted on as he wouldn’t work with painted backgrounds. A gigantic set had been erected as Ramses’ city by 500 carpenters and 600 painters and decorators. ![]() The director was in the middle of shooting his epic The Ten Commandments at the Guadalupe Nipomo Dunes in Central California. ![]() Stop filming and return to Los Angeles at once.” deMille a telegram: “You have lost your mind. In May 1923, Adolph Zukor, head of Paramount Pictures, sent director Cecil B. Out of the Vaults: “The Ten Commandments”, 1923
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