Delos jewkes biography of martin short

In , the Cecil B. One of the interesting pieces of information hidden in Special Collections concerns the casting and effects of the voice of God in the grand spectacle film The Te n Commandments , starring Charlton Heston as Moses. The voice of God is heard twice in the film, first out of the burning bush on Mt. Horeb, as God calls Moses to deliver his covenant people, and the second when God gives the Decalogue atop Mt.

In his autobiography, DeMille speaks of how taxing a prospect this was. The production team tried sound engineering tricks, tried mixing a chorus of voices from all over the world, and even tried recording under water.

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One was right. Henry asked me if I recognized the voice. I did not. He told me then whose it was: a man I had known for many years, not a professional actor, whom Henry had persuaded to come to the dubbing-room and record the lines spoken by the Voice of God at the giving of the Commandments, without telling me that it was being done.

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It was agreed among us that, out of reverence for the part of the Voice of God, the name of the man who played it should not be revealed. In newspaper articles in Utah County newspapers he retired to American Fork , he claimed to have been hired by Paramount Pictures to be the Voice of God for only one sequence in the film. Indeed, a reference to this can be found in the DeMille papers.

Inside Box , Folder 4 in the DeMille collection, we found a note dated March 4, which includes a stapled piece of paper verifying that earlier on February 28th, two men had come in to record for Mr. Grinch fame. Also in the same box and folder are discussions of how the Voice of God would be handled with tact in various language translations and for certain audiences worldwide.

It goes to show what deep treasure troves we have here at the HBLL, just waiting for student scholars and researchers to come uncover.