Charlton Heston landed the role after DeMille saw Michelangelo’s statue of Moses, which he thought resembled the actor. Heston also voiced God for the burning bush scene. 8. Jewelry worn by Anne ...

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 ...

Through a bush that’s burning but not being ... In other words, he’s not the growling, confident Moses that the Charlton Heston version became in The Ten Commandments; he’s a human being ...

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 ...