Male and Female
- This is a past program
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in partnership with the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design at UCLA with support from Cecilia de Mille Presley and The Cecil B. DeMille Foundation. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
In person: Introduction by Deborah Nadoolman Landis, founding director and chair of the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design. Q&A with Professor Landis and fashion and design historian, curator and author Michelle Tolini Finamore.
With live musical accompaniment! ASL interpretation will be provided for the introduction and Q&A.
Adapted from Peter Pan creator Sir James M. Barrie’s play The Admirable Crichton, Male and Female (1919) turns the tables on social class in a whimsical silent adventure film centered on an aristocratic family and their dutiful butler Crichton (Thomas Meighan). Crichton’s devotion to the family and Lady Mary Loam (Gloria Swanson, in a role that helped propel her into stardom) is upended when the group is shipwrecked on an island, and he assumes control to ensure their survival.
Followed by a conversation between Deborah Nadoolman Landis and Michelle Finamore on the uncredited costume designers for the film, including Clare West, Mitchell Leisen and Paul Iribe.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a division of UCLA Library, and presents its public programs in the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer, among other venues. For more information about the Archive, visit cinema.ucla.edu.
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