Katherine Orrison

Katherine Orrison (born 18 November 1948) is an author and film scholar specializing in the films of Cecil B. De Mille.

Katherine Orrison
Born	November 18, 1948 (1948-11-18) (age 63) Anniston, Alabama, United States
Occupation	Author, film scholar, screenwriter
Nationality	American
Period	1991-
Genres	Film criticism Screenwriting
Subjects	Cecil B. De Mille The Ten Commandments (1923 and 1956) Henry Wilcoxon Gary Cooper
sites.google.com/site/katherineorrison

Bibliography

She is the author of two books:

• Lionheart in Hollywood: Life and Times With C. B. De Mille, by Henry Wilcoxon with Katherine Orrison. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. 1991. ISBN 0810824760. 
• Written in Stone: Making Cecil B. DeMille's Epic The Ten Commandments. Vestal, NY: Vestal Press. 1999. ISBN 187951124X. 

Biography

Orrison graduated from the Sacred Heart Convent in Cullman, Alabama and attended the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theater Arts in Pasadena, CA and the American Film Institute in Beverly Hills, CA.

She worked in the Hollywood film industry for over twenty years as an animation checker, associate producer, production manager, art director, set decorator and costumer on films such as Miracle Mile (1988) and The Doors (1991). She also restored and decorated the Mayan Theater in downtown Los Angeles.

She was a staff writer on Cult Movies magazine for over ten years, penning articles on such subjects as Lawrence of Arabia, Ed Wood, actresses Yvonne De Carlo and Joan Woodbury, actor Bela Lugosi, the re-modeling of Cecil B. De Mille’s estate in Los Feliz, and the making of Blade Runner, to name a few. She also contributed regularly to the Cult Movies book review column.

She appeared as a film historian on the Yul Brynner episode of Biography, on the CBC on the subject of Gary Cooper and on the BBC on the subject of epic films. She provided the audio commentary on both the 1923 and 1956 DVD and Bluray versions of The Ten Commandments, for Paramount Pictures.

She has collaborated on several screenplays, one of which, Rave-On Macbeth, was produced in Europe in 2002.

From 1968 to 1969 she was married to actor Peter Coe (1918–1992), ending in annulment. In 1992 she married Sherman Labby, production illustrator and storyboard artist on over eighty films. The marriage lasted until his death in 1998 from the effects of muscular dystrophy.^[1]

References

1. ^ Katherine Orrison, Cecil B. De Mille Scholar, http://sites.google.com/site/katherineorrison/, retrieved 2010-09-12 

External links

• Katherine Orrison webpage
• Katherine Orrison at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Peter Chattaway of the Filmchat blog

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Name	Orrison, Katherine
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Date of birth	18 November 1948
Place of birth	Anniston, Alabama, United States
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