Cecil B. DeMille Christian and Jewish heritage to convey a message of tolerance. "The Crusades" was the first film to show accord between Christians and Muslims. DeMille received more than a dozen awards from Jewish religious and cultural groups, including B’nai B’rith. In 1954, he was seeking approval for a lavish remake of his 1923 silent film "The Ten Commandments". He went before the Paramount board of directors, which was mostly Jewish-American. The members rejected his proposal, even though his last two films, "Samson and Delilah" and "The Greatest Show on Earth", had been record-breaking hits. Adolph Zukor, the chairman of the board,
Henry Churchill de Mille Maude Adams in a tale about business and politics in America. Belasco and de Mille chose to go their separate ways by 1891. Later that October de Mille produced "The Lost Paradise", his adaptation of the Ludwig Fulda play "Das Verlorene Paradies". The production by Charles Frohman's company proved to be another success and was considered to be de Mille's best work to date. As he was finishing "The lost Paradise", de Mille read Henry George's famous treatise "Progress and Poverty" and immediately became a dedicated Georgist "single-taxer". De Mille resolved to write a conclusion to "The Lost Paradise" called