Cecil B. DeMille gives acceptance speech after winning Best Picture Oscar at the 25th Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, California, in 1953
Two-shot director Cecil B. DeMille and actress/presenter Mary Pickford banter about being old-timers as DeMille holds his Oscar for Best Picture, which Pickford has just handed him / SOT DeMille accepts award, expresses thanks "on behalf of the thousands that it took to make 'The Greatest Show on Earth,'" mentions stars Betty Hutton, Gloria Grahame, Cornel Wilde, Jimmy Stewart, Charlton Heston; "those people risked their lives" as did others who worked on the film / WS SOT DeMille, with Pickford listening nearby: "I am only one little link in a chain that produced that picture"





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Editorial #:
499830972
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
March 19, 1953
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Rights-ready
Release info:
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Clip length:
00:01:08:07
Location:
Los Angeles, California, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr001092_01_16.mov
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