Male and Female

Nov 23, 1919

1h 56m

★ 6.3

CECIL B DE MILLE'S SUBLIME MIRROR OF LIFE

Overview

When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.

Genres

Adventure

Drama

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

William Crichton, the butler

Thomas Meighan

Lady Mary Lasenby

Gloria Swanson

Tweeny, the scullery maid

Lila Lee

Lord Loam

Theodore Roberts

Lord Brockelhurst

Robert Cain

Honorable Ernest 'Ernie' Wolley

Raymond Hatton

The King's favorite

Bebe Daniels

Susan - Maid #2

Julia Faye

Lady Agatha Lasenby

Mildred Reardon

Mayme Kelso

Edmund Burns

Henry Woodward

Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.

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