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Why Change Your Wife?
(1920) American
B&W : Seven reels / 7175 feet
Produced (directed) by Cecil B. DeMille

Cast: Thomas Meighan [Robert Gordon], Gloria Swanson [Beth Gordon, his wife], Bebe Daniels, Theodore Kosloff, Clarence Geldart (Clarence Geldert), Sylvia Ashton, Maym Kelso, Lucien Littlefield, Edna Mae Cooper, Jane Wolfe

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Famous Players-Lasky Super-Production; Paramount-Artcraft Special]. / Produced by Cecil B. DeMille. Production manager Howard Higgin. Scenario by Olga Printzlau and Sada Cowan, from a story by William de Mille (William C. de Mille). Art direction by Wilfred Buckland. Costume design by Clare West and Mitchell Leisen. Assistant director Sam Wood. Photographed (cinematography) by Alvin Wyckoff. Edited by Anne Bauchens. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 2 February 1920 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP14751]. Released 2 May 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Production cost: $74,000.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4965.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Butlers - Divorce - Maids - Marriage

Listing updated: 15 August 2007.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.4965; Bardèche-History pp. 107, 204; Bohn-Light pp. 81, 90; Fell-History pp. 106, 107; Higashi-Virgins pp. 135-136, 137, 138, 142, 145, 149, 151; Hudson-Swanson pp. 13, 127, 128; Mandelbaum-Screen p. 38; Quirk-Swanson pp. 86, 87-89; Sinyard-Silent p. 145; Vermilye-Twenties p. 168.

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