The Squaw Man
While film portrayals of interracial love affairs between American Indians and Americans of European descent were in the early 20th century U.S. quite controversial (anti-miscegenation laws still predominating in the states), the moviegoing public found the films titillating, and they were quite popular. The prototype film of the theme was Cecil B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man (1914 film). This film was also the first picture that DeMille directed. DeMille remade "The Squaw Man" (1914) twice more well into the motion picture sound age.