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Voidsville Follies

Works by Gloria Swanson (2)

Don't Change Your Husband

Cecil B. DeMille (director)
Alvin Wyckoff (cinematographer)
Jeanie Macpherson (writer)
Gloria Swanson (lead)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jan 1919
Minutes: 80

Trite, bland moralizer that exists only to showcase the photogenic face of 20-year-old Gloria Swanson.

Featured elements:

: bookends; comedy; ethnic stereotype; gold digger; infidelity; marriage reconciliation; marriage termination; melodrama; neglected spouse; servitude

Why Change Your Wife?

Cecil B. DeMille (director)
Alvin Wyckoff (cinematographer)
Olga Printzlau (writer)
Sada Cowan (writer)
William C. de Mille (author)
Thomas Meighan (lead)
Gloria Swanson (lead)
Bebe Daniels (lead)
Theodore Kosloff (lead)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan (lead)
Famous Players-Lasky (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Feb 1920
Minutes: 91

A bit livelier than its boring twin (Don't Change Your Husband) - but not much. Still too many corny preachy title cards to read, and too little visual comedy to compensate for the effort.

Featured elements:

: animal act; bookends; breaking class; catfight; comedy; comedy of manners; ethnic stereotype; gold digger; infidelity; manipulator; marriage reconciliation; marriage termination; music; patriarchy; romance; servitude

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