De Mille began his long association with Hollywood when he went there in 1913 and directed The Squaw Man (1914), one of the first feature - length movies ever made.
DeMille converted an old barn near rural Los Angeles to shoot "The Squaw Man," the Deutsche Bioscop company was already building its first glass-roofed studio on a plot of land outside Berlin that was to become the Babelsberg studios.
Because he is an artist in ham, his artistry has sometimes not been widely enough appreciated." Among his major works are <IR> THE SQUAW MAN </IR> (1913 and 1918); The King of Kings (1927); The Sign of the Cross (1931); Reap the Wild Wind (1942); The Unconquered (1947); Samson and Delilah (1949); and The Ten Commandments (1957).