The Home Maker

The Home Maker is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by King Baggot and starring Alice Joyce, Clive Brook, and Billy Kent Schaefer.[1][2] A husband and wife are more successful once they have swapped roles.[3][4]

The Home Maker
Still on a magazine cover
Directed byKing Baggot
Written byMary O'Hara
Based onThe Home-Maker
by Dorothy Canfield
Produced byKing Baggot
StarringAlice Joyce
Clive Brook
Billy Kent Schaefer
CinematographyJohn Stumar
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • August 9, 1925 (1925-08-09)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[5] a man who is conscientious but inefficient in business is married to a woman who does not care for home work because she has great business ability. He attempts suicide because of his repeated failures, but injures himself by paralyzing his lower limbs and becoming an invalid. Thereafter he stays at home with the children and writes, while his wife takes a business position. Both are so happy with their changed circumstances that, when the husband discovers he can use his limbs again, he begs the family doctor not to reveal the fact, lest the happiness of the family be ruined. The doctor accedes, and the family’s bliss continues.

Cast

Preservation status

A print of The Home Maker is preserved in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[6]

References
  1. Progressive Silent Film List: The Home Maker at silentera.com
  2. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Home Maker
  3. Koszarski p. 189
  4. The Home Maker; The Alice Joyce Website by G. de Groat Retrieved March 17, 2018
  5. "New Pictures: The Home Maker", Exhibitors Herald, Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company, 23 (08): 62, November 14, 1925, retrieved November 8, 2022 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  6. The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Home Maker

Bibliography
  • Richard Koszarski. An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928. University of California Press, 1994. ISBN 0-6841-8415-X
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