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The Godless Girl (1929) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and produced by Cecil B. DeMille.

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Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Godless Girl” – Lina Basquette

By Art on Apr 19, 2011 From Classic Cinema Gold

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According to journalist Dorothy Donnell, director Cecil B. DeMille spent eight months and $200,000 on research before the production began. This included the enrolling of a young male informant into a boy's reform school and a female informant into a girl's school. Two large scrapbooks were kept in DeMille's archive, containing sworn testimonials by many former inmates, with graphic descriptions of the brutalities they endured. Donnell later said, "I have seen these books, and read in them things so revolting that they will probably never be printed."
Eddie Quillan said that Cecil B. DeMille had allowed him a lot of room for improvisation and even took suggestions for script changes, rare for any actor working for the notoriously controlling DeMille.
One of the fictional claims made my the film's publicity department was that it was filmed on location in a real reformatory, using real inmates. This is false; the reform school sets (both indoors and out) were constructed sets, and the cast was comprised of Hollywood actors.
Cecilia de Mille, daughter of Cecil B. DeMille, appears in an uncredited bit part.
The authentic-looking reform school set was built by Mitchell Leisen on a Culver City back lot. For the climactic fire scene, in which the whole set burned down, Leisen had the actors' clothes sprayed with asbestos and even devised a way to fireproof their hair.
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