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unusual facts about The King of Kings



Jacqueline Logan

In the segment of the documentary about DeMille's The King of Kings (1927), in which Logan appeared, narrator James Mason can be heard mentioning Logan's name, with the viewer expecting to see Logan talking about the film, but her interview was never broadcast and is not in any of the home video versions of the series.

Lloyd Binford

Binford's changes included the removal of whipping and crucifixion sequences from Cecil B. de Mille's The King of Kings and cuts to or bans of numerous films with African-American stars or topics, including Imitation of Life, Sensations of 1945, and Brewster's Millions (1945).


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Hollywood and Vine

In 1927, while researching The Skyscraper for DeMille Studios, Ayn Rand visited the building and, while waiting for her contact to arrive, went to the nearby Hollywood Branch Library, where she was reunited with Frank O'Connor, whom she had lost track of 6 months earlier when DeMille's The King of Kings finished shooting; Rand and O'Connor then began dating, were married in 1929 until his death in 1979.