Filmography

The Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company

The Squaw Man . Scenario and direction by DeMille and Oscar Apfel, based on the play by Edwin Milton Royle. Photographed by Alfred Gandolfi. Starring Dustin Farnum, Winifred Kingston, Red Wing, Monroe Salisbury, Billy Elmer, Joe E. Singleton. Distributed by the Lasky Company. Released on February 13, 1914.

The Call of the North . Scenario by DeMille, based on the play by George Broadhurst and the novel, The Conjuror's House , by Stewart Edward White. After his first effort, DeMille hired Alvin Wyckoff as photographer and Wilfred Buckland as art director; both remained his collaborators until the early 1920s. Starring Robert Edeson, Theodore Roberts, Winifred Kingston, Horace B. Carpenter, Florence Dagmar. Distributed by the Lasky Company. Released on August 11, 1914.

The Virginian . Scenario by DeMille, based on the play by Kirk LaShelle and the novel by Owen Wister. Starring Dustin Farnum, Winifred Kingston, J. W. Johnstone, Billy Elmer. Beginning with this release, the Lasky Company distributed its features through Paramount. Released on September 7, 1914.

What's His Name . Scenario by DeMille, based on the novel by George Barr McCutcheon. Starring Max Figman, Lolita Robertson, Fred Montague, Sydney Deane, Cecilia DeMille. Released on October 22, 1914.

The Man from Home . Scenario by DeMille, based on the play by Booth Tarkington and Harry L. Wilson. Starring Charles Richman, Mabel Van Buren, Horace B. Carpenter, Anita King, Fred Montague, Monroe Salisbury, Theodore Roberts. Released on November 9, 1914.

Rose of the Rancho . Scenario by DeMille, based on the play by David Belasco and Richard Walton Tully. Starring Bessie Barriscale, J. W. Johnstone, Dick La Reno, Monroe Salisbury, Jane Darwell. Released on November 30, 1914.

The Girl of the Golden West . Scenario by DeMille, based on the play by David Belasco. Starring Mabel Van Buren, House Peters, Theodore Roberts, Jeanie Macpherson, Anita King. Released on January 4, 1915.

The Warrens of Virginia . Scenario by William deMille, based on his play. Starring Blanche Sweet, House Peters, James Neill, Page Peters, Marjorie Daw. Released on February 15, 1915.

The Unafraid . Scenario by DeMille, based on the novel by Eleanor M. Ingram. Starring House Peters, Rita Jolivet, Page Peters. Released on April 1, 1915.

The Captive . Scenario by DeMille and Jeanie Macpherson. Starring Blanche Sweet, House Peters, Gerald Ward, Page Peters. Released on April 22, 1915.

Wild Goose Chase . Scenario by William deMille, based on his play. Starring Ina Claire, Tom Forman, Helen Marlborough, Raymond Hatton, Florence Smythe, Ernest Joy. Released on May 27, 1915.

Kindling . Scenario by DeMille, based on the play by Charles Kenyon and the novel by Charles Kenyon and Arthur Hornblow. Starring Charlotte Walker, Thomas Meighan, Florence Dagmar, Mrs. Lewis McCord, Raymond Hatton. Released on June 12, 1915.

The Arab . Scenario by DeMille, based on the play by Edgar Selwyn. Starring Edgar Selwyn, Gertrude Robinson, Horace B. Carpenter, Theodore Roberts, Sydney Deane. Released on June 14, 1915.

Chimmie Fadden . Scenario by DeMille, based on the play by Augustus Thomas and the stories by E. W. Townsend. Starring Victor Moore, Camille Astor, Raymond Hatton, Mrs. Lewis McCord, Anita King, Ernest Joy, Tom Forman. Released on June 28, 1915.

Carmen . Scenario by William deMille, based on the story by Prosper Merimée. Starring Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid, Pedro de Cordoba, Horace B. Carpenter, Jeanie Macpherson. Released on November 1, 1915.

Chimmie Fadden Out West . Scenario by DeMille and Jeanie Macpherson, based on the stories by E. W. Townsend. Starring Victor Moore, Camille Astor, Ernest Joy, Raymond Hatton, Mrs. Lewis McCord, Florence Dagmar. Released on November 22, 1915.

The Cheat . Scenario by Hector Turnbull and Jeanie Macpherson, based on an original story by Hector Turnbull. Starring Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Dean. Released on December 13, 1915.

Temptation . Scenario by DeMille, Jeanie Macpherson, and Hector Turnbull, based on an original story by Turnbull. Starring Geraldine Farrar, Pedro de Cordoba, Theodore Roberts, Elsie Jane Wilson, Raymond Hatton, Sessue Hayakawa. Released on January 2, 1916.

The Golden Chance . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson. Starring Cleo Ridgley, Wallace Reid, Horace B. Carpenter, Ernest Joy, Edythe Chapman, Raymond Hatton. Released on January 31, 1916.

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine . Scenario by DeMille, based on the play by Eugene Walter and the novel by John Fox, Jr. Starring Thomas Meighan, Charlotte Walker, Theodore Roberts, Earle Foxe. Released on February 14, 1916.

The Heart of Nora Flynn . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson, based on an original story by Hector Turnbull. Starring Marie Doro, Elliott Dexter, Lola May, Ernest Joy, Charles West, Billy Jacobs. Released on April 24, 1916.

Maria Rosa . Scenario by William deMille, based on the play by Wallace Gilpatrick and Guido Marburg which was based on the play by Angel Guimera. Starring Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid, Pedro de Cordoba, Horace B. Carpenter, James Neill. Released on May 8, 1916.

The Dream Girl . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson. Starring Mae Murray, Earle Foxe, Theodore Roberts, James Neill, Mary Mersch, Charles Welsh. Released on July 17, 1916.

Joan the Woman . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson. (Production on this epic was begun under Cardinal Film Corporation before Lasky merged with Famous Players.) Starring Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Roberts, Tully Marshall, Charles Clary, Lawrence Peyton. Premiered in New York on December 23, 1916. Released on January 15, 1917.

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation

Romance of the Redwoods . Scenario by DeMille and Jeanie Macpherson. Starring Mary Pickford, Elliott Dexter, Charles Ogle. Released on May 14, 1917.

The Little American . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson. Starring Mary Pickford, Jack Holt, Raymond Hatton. Released in July 1917.

The Woman God Forgot . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson. Starring Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid, Theodore Kosloff, Hobart Bosworth. Released on November 8, 1917.

The Devil Stone . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson, based on a story by Beatrice DeMille and Leighton Osmun. Starring Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid, Hobart Bosworth, Tully Marshall. Released on December 31, 1917.

The Whispering Chorus . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson, based on the short story by Perley Poore Sheehan. Starring Kathlyn Williams, Elliott Dexter, Raymond Hat-ton, Edythe Chapman. Released on March 28, 1918.

Old Wives for New . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson, based on the novel by David Graham Phillips. Starring Elliott Dexter, Florence Vidor, Theodore Roberts, Julia Faye, Marcia Manon, Gustav von Seyffertitz. Released on May 9, 1918.

We Can't Have Everything . Scenario by William deMille, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes. Starting with this film, Anne Bauchens is credited as the editor of the rest of DeMille's work. Starring Kathlyn Williams, Elliott Dexter, Thurston Hall, Wanda Hawley, Zada l'Etoile. Released on July 15, 1918.

Till I Come Back to You . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson. Starring Bryant Washburn, Florence Vidor, C. Butler Clonbough, Winter Hall. Released on September 1, 1918.

The Squaw Man . Scenario by Beulah Marie Dix, based on the play by Edwin Milton Royle. Starring Elliott Dexter, Katherine McDonald, Ann Little, Theodore Roberts, Jack Holt, Thurston Hall. Released in December 1918.

Don't Change Your Husband . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson. Starring Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Lew Cody, Julia Faye, Sylvia Ashton, Theodore Roberts. Released on January 16, 1919.

For Better, For Worse . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson, based on William deMille's adaptation of the play by Edgar Selwyn. Starring Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Tom Forman, Wanda Hawley. Released on April 27, 1919.

Male and Female . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson, based on the play, The Admirable Crichton, by James M. Barrie. Starring Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Leila Lee, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton. Released on November 16, 1919.

Why Change Your Wife? Scenario by Olga Printzlau and Sada Cowan, based on a story by William deMille. Starring Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Bebe Daniels, Theodore Kosloff, Sylvia Ashton. Released on May 2, 1920.

Something to Think About . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson. Photography by Alvin Wyckoff and Karl Struss. Starring Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Theodore Roberts, Monte Blue. Released on October 3, 1920.

Forbidden Fruit . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson. Photography by Alvin Wyckoff and Karl Struss. Art direction uncredited. Starring Agnes Ayres, Forrest Stanley, Clarence Burton, Kathlyn Williams, Theodore Roberts, Theodore Kosloff. Released on February 13, 1921.

The Affairs of Anatol . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson, Beulah Marie Dix, Lorna Moon, and Elmer Harris, based on the series of one-act plays, Anatol , by Arthur Schnitzler. Photography by Alvin Wyckoff and Karl Struss. Art direction by Paul Iribe. Starring Gloria Swanson, Wallace Reid, Wanda Hawley, Theodore Roberts, Agnes Ayres, Monte Blue, Bebe Daniels, Theodore Kosloff. Released on September 25, 1921.

Fool's Paradise . Scenario by Beulah Marie Dix and Sada Cowan, based on the story, "The Laurels and the Lady," by Leonard Merrick. Photography by Alvin Wyckoff and Karl Struss. Art direction uncredited. Starring Conrad Nagel, Dorothy Dalton, Mildred Harris, Theodore Kosloff, John Davidson. Released on December 9, 1921.

Saturday Night . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson. Photography by Karl Struss. Art direction by Paul Iribe. Starring Leatrice Joy, Conrad Nagel, Edith Roberts, Jack Mower. Released on February 5, 1922.

Manslaughter . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson, based on the novel by Alice Duer Miller. Photography by Alvin Wyckoff. Art direction by Paul Iribe. Starring Leatrice Joy, Thomas Meighan, Lois Wilson. Released on September 25, 1922.

Adam's Rib . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson. Photography by Alvin Wyckoff. Art direction by Paul Iribe. Starring Anna Q. Nilsson, Morton Sills, Theodore Kosloff, Elliott Dexter, Pauline Garon. Released in March 1923.

The Ten Commandments . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson. Photography by Bert Glennon, Edward Curtis, J. Peverell Marley, Archibald J. Stout, and J. F. Westerberg. Technicolor photography by Ray Rennahan. Art direction by Paul Iribe. Starring Theodore Roberts, Charles de Roche, Estelle Taylor, Rod La Rocque, Leatrice Joy, Richard Dix, Edythe Chapman. Premiered in Los Angeles on December 4, 1923.

Triumph . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson, based on the novel by May Edington. Photography by J. Peverell Marley. Art direction uncredited. Starring Leatrice Joy, Rod La Rocque, Victor Varconi, Theodore Kosloff. Released on April 20, 1924.

Feet of Clay . Scenario by Beulah Marie Dix and Bertram Milhauser, based on the novel by Margaretta Tuttle and the play, Across the Border , by Dix. Photography by J. Peverell Marley and Archibald J. Stout. Art direction by Paul Iribe. Starring Vera Reynolds, Rod La Rocque, Julia Faye, Richard Cortez, Robert Edeson. Released on September 22, 1924.

The Golden Bed . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson, based on the novel, Tomorrow's Bed , by Wallace Irwin. Photography by J. Peverell Marley. Art direction by Paul Iribe. Starring Lillian Rich, Rod La Rocque, Vera Reynolds, Theodore Kosloff. Released on January, 19, 1925.