Eve's Leaves

Eve's Leaves (1926)

ComedyRomance

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

Director: Paul Sloane

Casts

	Leatrice Joy as Eve Corbin
	William Boyd as Bill Stanley
	Robert Edeson as Captain Corbin
	Walter Long as Chang Fang
	Eddie Harris as Cookie (The Cook)
	Richard Carle as Richard Stanley
	Sôjin Kamiyama as Le Sing

Crew