2 props from The Ten Commandments and a cool photo.
DeMille was very clever, the way he got away with mixing sex, violence and religion in a movie. He told me "I'll make a biblical picture and use the Old Testament. There's so much dirt in the Bible, you couldn't clean it with a shovel."
Charlton Heston was a wonderful man to work with. I remember putting the long beard on him as an older Moses. He had to sit in the make up chair for hours putting make up on and taking it off. Sometimes I would pull his skin when removing the beard, but he never complained. He was always pleasant to work with. Do you remember the scene where he came down from the mountain and he had turned into an old man? I put the beard on him and colored his hair gray for that scene. I wanted to add some wrinkles to his face and make him really look old, but DeMille didn't want me to touch Charlton Heston's face. "He has to look handsome," Demille said. So I just put the beard on and put grey in his hair. I think the scene looked silly. Charlton Heston with a grey hair and a beard, but a young face. I tried to tell Demille, but he just wouldn't listen. Yul Brynner was pleasant to work with too.
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