DEMILLE CECIL B Typed Letter Signed to Flora Shirah

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"I REALLY MADE THE PICTURE ['THE TEN COMMANDMENTS'] FOR YOUNG PEOPLE" DEMILLE, CECIL B. Typed Letter Signed, to Flora Shirah, remarking that he made The Ten Commandments for young people, explaining that the young will soon be making historically important decisions about good and evil, thanking for film topic suggestions, pointing out that some films have already been released on those topics, and noting that he produced The Crusades in 1935. 1 page, 4to, "Paramount Pictures" stationery; remnants of hinging at upper edge verso, horizontal folds. Hollywood, 18 March 1957

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". . . I was very interested to hear that you would like to have your Sunday School children see THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. I really made the picture for young people. In their hands will lie decisions for good and evil of a magnitude that no other generation has ever been called upon to make. Only if these decisions are based upon the eternal principles of morality--written once upon tablets of stone, and embedded by our Founding Fathers into the American way of life--can freedom under God, as we know it in our land, survive in the world. . . ."