Eves Leaves (1926)

After forming his own studio in 1925 Cecil B DeMille produced this exuberant blend of orientalist melodrama and genderbending comedy featuring his THE TEN COMMANDMENTS leading lady Leatrice Joy An overprotective 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 shes a boy when she shanghais him aboard her fathers 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 lovehungry phases Martin Rubin Gene Siskel Film Center