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Henry Churchill De Mille was born on September 17, 1853 in Washington, North Carolina, United States. He was the son of William Edward and Margaret Blount (Hoyt) De Mille. Henry spent his boyhood on a farm.
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Henry Churchill De Mille was born on September 17, 1853 in Washington, North Carolina, United States. He was the son of William Edward and Margaret Blount (Hoyt) De Mille. Henry spent his boyhood on a farm.
Going to New York, Henry became a student in Columbia College, being graduated in 1875 and receiving the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts.
Henry's first intention was to become a clergyman, but he soon changed his mind, and, after teaching at the Columbia Grammar School in New York, he became permanently associated with the theatre, successively as an actor for a short time under M. Palmer’s management, as an instructor in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, as a reader of plays at the Madison Square Theatre, and as a writer of plays.
His first original play, John Delmer’s Daughters or Duty, was produced there on December 10, 1883, but it attracted the public for only one week. After the production, at the Lyceum Theatre, on September 18, 1886, of The Main Line or Rawson’s Y, a melodrama of Western scenes and incidents written in collaboration with Charles Barnard, he began the partnership with Belasco which resulted in a series of plays that reflected more of the glare of the footlights than of the actual light of day.
Since he saw life mainly in terms of the theatre, his plays were artificial in structure, written in the conventional manner of the society drama of the day, with alternate layers of intrigue, drama, farce, and comedy, their only appeal being in their entertaining qualities and in the opportunity they gave for skilful acting by groups of expert players.
Except for occasional performances by local stock companies, their popularity did not continue beyond the early years of the twentieth century. Another Belasco-De Mille play, Men and Women, produced at Proctor’s Twenty-third Street Theatre in New York on October 21, 1890, dealt with the sensations of American business and political life. De Mille’s last play, also produced at Proctor’s, was The Lost Paradise, an English version of the German dramatist Ludwig Fulda’s Das Verlorene Paradies.
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In 1876 Henry married Mathilde Beatrice Samuel; of their three children a daughter died in childhood, and two sons, William C. and Cecil B. De Mille, have reached positions of prominence in the motion-picture world.