Male and Female

Cecil B. DeMille, 1919, from Barrie's The Admirable Crichton: a butler (Thomas Meighan) becomes king of an island when the family he serves is shipwrecked. Gloria Swanson is Lady Mary. The bath scene — Swanson in a sunken tub, DeMille discovering what a bathroom could sell — is the film Hollywood remembered. The rest is class as a costume you take off when there is no one to see it. Famous Players–Lasky, the year DeMille learned that spectacle and sex were the same department.