The Home Maker is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by King Baggot and starring Alice Joyce, Clive Brook, and Billy Kent Schaefer.Progressive Silent Film List: The Home Maker at silentera.comThe AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Home Maker A husband and wife are more successful once they have swapped roles.Koszarski p. 189The Home Maker; The Alice Joyce Website by G. de Groat Retrieved March 17, 2018
Plot As described in a film magazine review, 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.
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Preservation status A print of The Home Maker is preserved in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Home Maker
References
Bibliography Richard Koszarski. An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928. University of California Press, 1994.
External links
Lobby cards and stills at the Alice Joyce website