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Why Change Your Wife?

1920 · 90 min · US

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille, Famous Players-Lasky / Paramount, 1920. Thomas Meighan as Robert, Gloria Swanson as the bookish wife, Bebe Daniels as the one in sequins. A husband strays toward showgirl clothes; the wife restyles herself and takes him back on new terms. Silent, about ninety minutes. DeMille between male and female marital sermons, staging the bathroom and the gown shop as the real plot. Jeanie Macpherson wrote it.

Comedy · Romance · Drama

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1920 · Source: Wikimedia Commons

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Wikimedia Commons · 1h 31m 26s (5486 s)

Video: Cecil B. DeMille · Credit: YouTube · Public domain · Source: File page

Cast & Crew

Cecil B. DeMille · DirectorGloria SwansonThomas Meighan

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Cast

Principal players
G

Gloria Swanson

T

Thomas Meighan

B

Bebe Daniels

T

Theodore Kosloff

S

Sylvia Ashton

C

Clarence Geldart

M

Mayme Kelso

L

Lucien Littlefield

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