"Oh, Moses, Moses, you wonderful, Wonderful,
WONDERFUL fool!"--Anne Baxter, as Nefretiri,
in "The Ten Commandments" (1956)
Look at this poster, girls! Its detailed artwork points to the epic quality of the film. Where do you see this kind of poster art any more?
And where do you see films like "The Ten Commandments" anymore? Reverent and religious in its visual tone, once the actors--everyone from Charlton Heston, to Yvonne, De Carlo, to Anne Baxter, to Debra Paget, to Martha Scott, to Edward G. Robinson, and John Derek, as Joshua, with the hottest chest in Biblical film history--start opening their mouths, this film becomes a camp fest. Twice as long as "Valley Of The Dolls" (and sometimes even seeming three times that!!!!!!!!!!) "The Ten Commandments has commanded screens and TVs for six decades. It is a film of excess, of many excesses, and they deserve to be remembered in a big screen showing! Let's hope we can count on it, darlings!
I am telling you, when the parting of the Red Sea comes on the screen, I have to restrain myself from getting up in my seat, and singing the Judy Garland classic, "Get Happy!!!!!!!!!!!" Hey, why not start a new tradition, loves????????????
Remember--
"So, it is written. So, it shall be done!"
Myself, I always related to Miriam, writhing before the Golden Calf!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did you know that was the late Olive Deering???????????????
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