Why Change Your Wife

Why Change Your Wife (1920)

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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
  • April 24, 1920
Running time
90 minutes
Country United States
Languages Silent
English intertitles
Budget $129,349.31
Box office $1 million

 

 

 

 

 

 

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