The Bible in film religious epics produced as vehicles for its biggest stars. "Samson and Delilah" was the biggest moneymaking movie of 1949 and is considered the picture that sparked the biblical-epic film craze of the 1950s. It was followed by two of 1951’s biggest box-office hits, "Quo Vadis" and "David and Bathsheba". Charlton Heston starred in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" and "Ben-Hur". According to author Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, in the 1950s and 1960s, during the era of the production code, "the most acceptable cinematic path for movies to incorporate sex and violence was the biblical epic". Basing a film on the Bible
Anna George de Mille She served as the president of the board of trustees of said school. Anna de Mille went on several tours promoting the single-tax movement, and was a large donor to the Henry George Collection at the New York Public Library. de Mille served as an officer in the Henry George Foundation of Pittsburgh. In 1950 she published "Henry George, Citizen of the World", a biography of her father, which was published by The University of North Carolina Press after being released in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. Anna de Mille also helped raise money for the restoration of