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,
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