noun
United States dancer and choreographer who introduced formal dance to a wide audience (1905-1993)
• Syn: ↑Agnes de Mille, ↑Agnes George de Mille
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑dancer, ↑professional dancer, ↑terpsichorean, ↑choreographer
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Agnes (George), 1908-93, U.S. choreographer and dancer.
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[də 'mil]Cecil B. (1881 - 1959), U.S. movie producer and director, noted for his spectacular epics; full name Cecil Blount De Mille. He founded the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company (later Paramount) with Samuel Goldwyn in 1913 and chose the then little-known Los Angeles suburb of Hollywood as a location for their first movie, The Squaw Man (1914). Other notable movies: The Ten Commandments (1923; remade 1956) and Samson and Delilah (1949)
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