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Eve's Leaves

70.00% | January 10, 1926 |

After forming his own studio in 1925, Cecil B. DeMille produced this exuberant blend of orientalist melodrama and gender-bending comedy featuring his THE TEN COMMANDMENTS leading lady Leatrice Joy. An over-protective sea captain forces his daughter Eve to pass as a boy. But she craves romance and sets her sights on a handsome American tourist (Boyd) who still thinks she's a boy when she shanghais him aboard her father's ship; then a lustful Chinese pirate (Walter Long) takes them prisoner. Joy, an appealing comedienne whose career nosedived when talkies came in, sparkles in both her tomboy and love-hungry phases. -Martin Rubin, Gene Siskel Film Center

Featured Crew

Paul Sloane
Director
Harry Chapman Ford
Theatre Play
Elmer Harris
Story
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Cast

Leatrice Joy
Leatrice Joy
Eve Corbin
William Boyd
William Boyd
Bill Stanley
Robert Edeson
Robert Edeson
Captain Corbin
Walter Long
Walter Long
Chang Fang
Eddie Harris
Eddie Harris
Cookie (The Cook)

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