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Why Change Your Wife? is a american film of genre Drama directed by Cecil B. DeMille released in USA on 21 may 1920 with Gloria Swanson

Why Change Your Wife? (1920)

Why Change Your Wife?
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Released in USA 21 may 1920
Length 1h30
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romance
Rating66% 3.3444953.3444953.3444953.3444953.344495

Why Change Your Wife? is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gloria Swanson.



^ Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. p. 120. ISBN 0-813-12324-0.

^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Why Change Your Wife?". Silent Era. Retrieved 2008-05-02.

Synopsis

Frumpy wife Beth devotes herself to bettering her husband's mind and expanding his appreciation for the finer things in life, such as classical music. When he goes shopping at a lingerie store to buy some sexier clothes for her, he meets Sally, the shop girl. Rejected by his wife for a night out on the town, he takes Sally, who douses him with her perfume. When Beth smells another woman's perfume, she kicks him out and files for divorce.

Actors

Gloria Swanson

(Beth Gordon)Thomas Meighan

(Robert Gordon)Bebe Daniels

(Sally Clark)Theodore Kosloff

(Radinioff)William Boyd

(un officier de marine à l'hôtel)
And :
Sylvia Ashton
Julia Faye
Mayme Kelso
Clarence Geldart
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