The Cecil B Demille award.
Demille gave her a job as an extra and later hired her as a junior screenwriter.
Demille's biblical epic King of Kings(1927)
was immensely popular, and sensing he would found a winning formula, De Mille released a series of big-budget biblical and historical spectacles throughout the next two decades.
In 2017, when she was awarded the Cecil B. Demille Award at the Golden Globes,
Streep used her platform for a purpose, reminding the country that“when the powerful use their position to bully, we all lose.”.
His films were rarely a big hit with the critics, but in the end what really matters is what the ticket-holders think,
and they came out in droves for Demille's pictures since the days of silent movies until the 1950s.
In the 1923 silent film, The Ten Commandments,
directed by the legendary Cecil B. Demille(not the 1956 Charlton Heston-starring movie of the same name),
Jell-O was used to create the effect of keeping the Red Sea parted as the Israelites escaped Egypt.