The Battle of the Sexes (1928 film)
The Battle of the Sexes 1928 is a film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Jean Hersholt, Phyllis Haver, Belle Bennett, Don Alvarado and Sally ONeil, and released by United Artists. The film was a remake by Griffith of an earlier film he directed in 1914, which starred Lillian Gish. Both films are based on the short story The Single Standard by Daniel Carson Goodman the story was adapted for this production by Gerrit J. Lloyd.
Marie Skinner Phyllis Haver is a gold digger with her hooks out for devoted middleaged family man J.C. Hudson Jean Hersholt, a portly real estate tycoon, who falls for her when she contrives to meet him. When his wife Belle Bennett and grown children, Ruth Sally ONeil and Billy William Bakewell discover him dancing with Marie at a nightclub, J.C. leaves home the next day. Ruth seeks out Marie to shoot her, but is interrupted by Maries boyfriend, jazz hound Babe Winsor Don Alvarado, who takes a shine to her. When Judson walks in on them he condemns her licentiousness, but is forced to face his double standard when he witnesses a violent argument between Marie and Babe. Full of contrition, J.C. returns to home and hearth and the bosom of his loving family.
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