The Battle of the Sexes

The happy Judson family (Jean Hersholt, Belle Bennett, kids Sally O'Neil and William Bakewell) celebrating mum's birthday, unaware that gold digger Marie (Phyllis Haver) and her scheming boyfriend (Don Alvarado) have moved in across the hall, in D.W. Griffith's The Battle Of The Sexes, 1928.

Striking opening scene by director D.W. Griffith, in his remake of his own 1914 film of the same name, purposeful Marie (Phyllis Haver) gets to know well-to-do Judson (Jean Hersholt), in The Battle Of The Sexes, 1928.