And then he hints at his real profession - he""s a down-and-out con artist: "Actually, that ain""t a bad way to pick up insurance, you know.It was a socio-economic drama based on theCinderellastory, but actually taken from Ovid""s Greek myth of Pygmalion - about a sculptor who fell in love with Galatea, a marble-ivory statue of his own making.It was a remake of DeMille""s own 1923 silent film of the same name, with its scope narrowed to focus on the previous film""s prologue to solely concentrate on the character of Moses.3 million.At the time, the film had the highest-opening weekend of all time, at $248 million.To date (2018), the film remains the highest-grossing (domestic) film of all-time, if unadjusted for inflation.