The Home Maker

The Home Maker
Still on a magazine cover
Directed by	King Baggot
Written by	Mary O'Hara
Based on	The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield
Produced by	King Baggot
Starring	Alice Joyce Clive Brook Billy Kent Schaefer
Cinematography	John Stumar
Production company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	August 9, 1925 (1925-08-09)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

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]}

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

• Alice Joyce as Eva Knapp
• Clive Brook as Lester Knapp
• Billy Kent Schaefer as Stephen Knapp
• Maurice Murphy as Henry Knapp
• Julie Bishop as Helen Knapp
• Frank Newburg as Harvey Bronson
• George Fawcett as Dr. Merritt
• Margaret Campbell as Mattie Farnum
• Martha Mattox as Mrs. Anderson
• Alfred Fisher as John - the Janitor
• Alice Flower as Miss West
• Virginia True Boardman as Mrs. Prouty
• Elaine Ellis as Molly Prouty
• Mary Gordon as Mrs. Hennessy
• Lloyd Whitlock as Mr. Willings

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, 23 (08), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 62, November 14, 1925, retrieved November 8, 2022 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

External links

• The Home Maker at IMDb
• Lobby cards and stills at the Alice Joyce website