The Home Maker

The Home Maker is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by King Baggot and starring Alice Joyce, Clive Brook, and Billy Kent Schaefer.[1][2] A husband and wife are more successful once they have swapped roles.[3][4]

As described in a film magazine review,[5] a man who is conscientious but inefficient in business is married to a woman who does not care for home work because she has great business ability. He attempts suicide because of his repeated failures, but injures himself by paralyzing his lower limbs and becoming an invalid. Thereafter he stays at home with the children and writes, while his wife takes a business position. Both are so happy with their changed circumstances that, when the husband discovers he can use his limbs again, he begs the family doctor not to reveal the fact, lest the happiness of the family be ruined. The doctor accedes, and the family’s bliss continues.

A print of The Home Maker is preserved in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[6]