Theodore Kosloff (1882-1956), the choreographer and dancer, is shown here with Lillian Rich picking his pocket in Cecil B. DeMille’s THE GOLDEN BED (1925). Rich's character ensures that Kosloff's Marquis de San Pilar comes to a bad end, allowing her to pursue ...
Rod La Rocque, pictured skipping rope at home by Alexander Paul Kahle. In THE GOLDEN BED, his character is named Admah Holtz -- a singular, and therefore perfect, name for a 1920s hero.
THE CRUISE OF THE JASPER B. (1926) was a late silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It starred Rod La Rocque (1898-1969) and Mildred Harris (1901-1944), today most famous as Charlie Chaplin's first wife. The plot of THE CRUISE OF THE JASPER B. revolves around a stolen inheritance and has elements suggesting reincarnation: it also boasts more than one scene where the hero (or the heroine) must appear in fetching undress.
By 1926, La Rocque had already appeared in DeMille's first TEN COMMANDMENTS (with Theodore Roberts and Julia Faye), and in 1927 DeMille served as best man at La Rocque's marriage to Vilma Bánky. The range of careers Cecil B. DeMille launched, or helped, is quite as remarkable as the length and variety of his career.
