Eve's Leaves

Eve's Leaves
Directed by	Paul Sloane
Produced by	Cecil B. DeMille
Written by	Elmer Harris (story); Jack Jevne (adaptation); John W. Krafft (intertitles)
Starring	Leatrice Joy; William Boyd
Cinematography	Arthur C. Miller
Distributed by	Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date	June 13, 1926;
Running time	7 reels (6,754 feet)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Eve's Leaves is a 1926 American silent romantic comedy film starring Leatrice Joy and William Boyd. The film was produced and distributed by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Paul Sloane.[1][2]

Cast

Leatrice Joy as Eve Corbin
William Boyd as Bob Britton
Robert Edeson as Captain Corbin
Walter Long as Chang Fang
Richard Carle as Thomas Britton
Arthur Hoyt as Missionary
Sōjin Kamiyama as Le Sing
K. Nambu as The Executioner
Eddie Harris as Cookie, the cook

Production

Leatrice Joy had impulsively cut her hair short in 1926, and DeMille, whom Joy had followed when he set up Producers Distributing Corporation, was publically angry as it prevented her from portraying traditional feminine roles.[3] The studio developed projects with roles suitable for her “Leatrice Joy bob”,[3] and Eve's Leaves was the second of five films before she regrew her hair. Despite this, a professional dispute would end the Joy / Demille partnership in 1928.

Preservation

A 16mm print of Eve's Leaves is preserved film at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[2][4]

References

The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 published by The American Film Institute, c.1971
Progressive Silent Film List: Eve's Leaves at silentera.com
Johanna, Schmertz (2013), "The Leatrice Joy Bob: The Clinging Vine and Gender's Cutting Edge", in Dall’Asta, Monica; Duckett, Victoria; Tralli, Lucia (eds.), Researching Women in Silent Cinema: New Findings and Perspectives, University of Bologna, pp. 402–13, ISBN 978-8-8980-1010-3, ISSN 2283-6462
[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3141/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Eve's Leaves

External links

Eve's Leaves on IMDb
Synopsis at AllMovie

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[1] The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 published by The American Film Institute, c.1971

[silentera-2] Progressive Silent Film List: Eve's Leaves at silentera.com

[Schmertz-3] Johanna, Schmertz (2013), "The Leatrice Joy Bob: The Clinging Vine and Gender's Cutting Edge", in Dall’Asta, Monica; Duckett, Victoria; Tralli, Lucia (eds.), Researching Women in Silent Cinema: New Findings and Perspectives, University of Bologna, pp. 402–13, ISBN 978-8-8980-1010-3, ISSN 2283-6462

[4] [http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3141/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Eve's Leaves