"BUFFALO BILL."
~rwuin \n s}° } l) etyPc of Production on which he first built his name, Cecil B DeMille has started preparations for the filming of "Buffalo Bill,", a saga ot the Indian fighting frontier days Courtney Riley Cooper, popular author and biographer of the glamorous: buftalo hunter, has been signed to work; on the script with Grover Jones. Thdate on which this picture will go into production is contingent on a race with another DeMille unit, which is simultaneously preparing the Biblical spectacle "Samson and Delilah," for which Harold Lamb, historian and. author of "The Crusades," is writing the script. - "Although I have been successful with earlier- pictures of the West which I brought, to the screen/ DeMille said, "none of them has opened up such colourful possibilities as the story of 'Buffalo'Bill,'in which appear such intriguing characters as Sitting Bull, General Sheridan, YellowHand, General Custer, Wild Bill Hickock, Calamity Jane, and, many others." •
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 107, 7 May 1936, Page 21
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