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Why Change Your Wife?
“There's one time when real married life is absorbingly entertaining- It's when Cecil B. DeMille puts it in a picture.”
5.6 / 10• 1920• 1h 30m•NR• English
ComedyDramaRomance
Storyline
Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.
Cast & Crew
Gloria Swanson
Beth Gordon
Lead
Thomas Meighan
Robert Gordon
Bebe Daniels
Sally Clark
Theodore Kosloff
Radinioff
Sylvia Ashton
Aunt Kate
Clarence Geldart
The Doctor
Mayme Kelso
Harriette - the Couturière
Lucien Littlefield
Gordon's Butler
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Cecil B. DeMille's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Why Change Your Wife? is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
