JTA’s man in L.A. reflects on the ironies of Charlton ... Moses escaped from Egypt, the grandfather of the New York lawyer arrived from Russia. Indeed, it is fair to say that if Heston’s ...

Film icon and humanitarian Charlton Heston ’45 ... whom Heston called “a 20th-century Moses.” Heston led the arts contingent to the 1963 March on Washington. He later served as president of the ...

Even so, Cecil B DeMille's 1956 account of the life of Moses (Charlton Heston) still has some impressive sequences-notably the Exodus from Egypt, with 60,000 extras—and remains the definitive ...

Moses (Charlton Heston) gains Sethi's favor and the love of the throne Princess Nefretiri (Anne Baxter), as well as the hatred of Sethi's son, Rameses II (Yul Brynner). When his Hebrew heritage is ...