Producer/Director Cecil B. DeMille was known for his epic movies created with armies of actors and extras spread out across the landscape.
It was a high-pressure, high stress job, and during the filming of the “Ten Commandments,” he suffered a heart attack, but survived to complete the movie.
Charlton Heston offered an example of the pressure he lived with — it was the Exodus scene.
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