Watch On Bruised Onion Studio YouTube Channel
Why Change Your Wife (1920)
American silent comedy.
Beth and Robert, a married couple, find themselves drifting apart after ten years of marriage.
For a silent movie, music plays an important part in it, with a private music recital and a public orchestra performance giving the mood for two scenes.
Most significantly, music records with three different types of music are prominently displayed in the hands of two main actors, and are intrinsic to the story development.
According to film historian Kevin Brownlow’s book “Behind the Mask of Innocence,” the scene where Sally (Bebe Daniels) and Beth (Gloria Swanson) fight over Robert’s sickbed was based upon an actual quarrel between two of Cecil B. DeMille’s mistresses, Julia Faye and Jeanie Macpherson.
The state film censor board in Pennsylvania made 22 cuts before the film could be passed for exhibition.
Why Change Your Wife featured the film debut of future Hopalong Cassidy star William Boyd.
| Directed by | Cecil B. DeMille |
|---|---|
| Written by | Sada Cowan Olga Printzlau |
| Story by | William C. deMille |
| Produced by | Cecil B. DeMille Jesse L. Lasky |
| Starring | Gloria Swanson |
| Cinematography | Alvin Wyckoff |
| Edited by | Anne Bauchens |
|
Production
company |
Famous Players-Lasky/Artcraft
|
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
|
Release date
|
|
|
Running time
|
90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
| Budget | $129,349.31 |
| Box office | $1 million |
