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,
Cecil B. DeMille refers to himself in one instance as "Cecil B. DeAldrin", as a humorous nod to DeMille. DeMille made seventy features. In spite of careful storage in his film vaults, seven films—the early silents: "The Arab", "The Wild Goose Chase", "Chimmie Fadden", "The Dream Girl", "We Can't Have Everything", "The Devil Stone", and the 1918 remake "The Squaw Man"—were lost to nitrate decomposition. Roughly twenty of his silent features are available in commercial DVD format. The sound films are in three groups: 1. The three films DeMille produced at M-G-M are now owned by Warner Bros. (through Turner Entertainment). 2. The