Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
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One of the best of Cecil B. DeMille's sophisticated sex comedies of the silent era, Why Change Your Wife? hinges upon a marriage of opposites. Husband Thomas Meighan has a fondness for wine, women and song; wife Gloria Swanson is the intellectual bookish type (we know this much because she wears… More One of the best of Cecil B. DeMille's sophisticated sex comedies of the silent era, Why Change Your Wife? hinges upon a marriage of opposites. Husband Thomas Meighan has a fondness for wine, women and song; wife Gloria Swanson is the intellectual bookish type (we know this much because she wears thick glasses). When jazz baby Bebe Daniels enters Meighan's life, the indignant Swanson files for divorce. Realizing that she's permitted herself to become dull and drab, the newly liberated Gloria "dolls up" with a glamorous new wardrobe. Meanwhile, Meighan has become disillusioned with new bride Bebe, who is all pizazz but no substance. At a fashionable summer resort, Meighan and Swanson are reunited. When Tom and Gloria fall in love all over again, Bebe is temporarily put out, but she consoles herself with the old battle cry "Remember the Alimony!" Despite the film's farcical trappings, Why Change Your Wife? has more depth than the usual DeMille froth, thanks to the three-dimensional performances of its star trio. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
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Cast
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Sylvia Ashton
as Aunt Kate
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Edna Mae Cooper
as Maid
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Bebe Daniels
as Sally Clark
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Clarence Geldert
as The Doctor
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Mayme Kelso
as Harriette
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Theodore Kosloff
as Radinoff
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Lucien Littlefield
as Butler
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Thomas Meighan
as Robert Gordon
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Gloria Swanson
as Beth Gordon
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Jane Wolfe
as Woman Client
