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2 Cast  





3 Preservation status  





4 References  





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The Home Maker
Still on a magazine cover
Directed byKing Baggot
Written byMary O'Hara
Based onThe Home-Maker
byDorothy Canfield
Produced byKing Baggot
StarringAlice Joyce
Clive Brook
Billy Kent Schaefer
CinematographyJohn Stumar

Production
company

Universal Pictures

Distributed byUniversal Pictures

Release date

  • August 9, 1925 (1925-08-09)

Running time

90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (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[edit]

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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

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

    References[edit]

  • ^ Koszarski p. 189
  • ^ The Home Maker; The Alice Joyce Website by G. de Groat Retrieved March 17, 2018
  • ^ "New Pictures: The Home Maker", Exhibitors Herald, 23 (08), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 62, November 14, 1925, retrieved November 8, 2022 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • ^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Home Maker
  • Bibliography[edit]

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