Don't Change Your Husband

Don't Change Your Husband
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Directed by	Cecil B. DeMille
Produced by	Jesse L. Lasky
Story by	Jeanie MacPherson
Starring	Elliott Dexter
Cinematography	Alvin Wyckoff
Edited by	Anne Bauchens
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	January 26, 1919 (1919-01-26)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)
Budget	$73,922.14^[1]
Box office	$292,134.10^[1]

Don't Change Your Husband is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gloria Swanson. The film was the third of six "marriage films" directed by DeMille and the first DeMille film starring Gloria Swanson.^[1]^[2] A print of the film is stored at the George Eastman House.^[3]

Plot

Based upon a description in a film magazine,^[4] Leila Porter (Swanson) has grown tired of her husband James Denby Porter (Dexter), the glue king, as she is romantic but he is prosaic. Moreover, he is careless of his personal appearance, gets cigar ash in the carpet, and eats green onions before he tries to kiss her. She obtains a divorce and then marries James' friend Schuyler Van Sutphen (Cody), but discovers that Van Sutphen is a real beast. When she later discovers that her ex-husband has changed as a result of the divorce, still loves her, and would be happy to have her back, Leila divorces once again in order to remarry James.

Cast

Elliott Dexter - James Denby Porter
Gloria Swanson - Leila Porter
Lew Cody - Schuyler Van Sutphen
Sylvia Ashton - Mrs. Huckney
Theodore Roberts - The Bishop, Rt. Rev. Thomas Thornby
Julia Faye - Nanette aka Toodles
James Neill - Butler
Ted Shawn - Faun
Irving Cummings - Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Clarence Geldart - Manager of Gambling Club (uncredited)
Raymond Hatton - Croupier at Gambling Club (uncredited)
Jack Mulhall - Member of Gambling Club (uncredited)
Guy Oliver - Mr. Frankel, Dressmaker (uncredited)
Sam Wood - Undetermined Role (uncredited)

References

1 2 3 Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. p. 135. ISBN 0-813-12324-0.
↑ I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies. Random House Digital, Inc. 2013. p. 14. ISBN 0-307-26916-7.
↑ "Progressive Silent Film List: Don't Change Your Husband". Silent Era. Retrieved 2008-06-21.
↑ "Advertising Aids for Busy Managers: Don't Change Your Husband". Moving Picture World. New York City: Chalmers Publishing Company. 39 (6): 810. Feb 8, 1919. Retrieved 2014-07-22.

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Films directed by Cecil B. DeMille

Silent	The Squaw Man (1914) Brewster's Millions (1914) The Master Mind (1914) The Only Son (1914) The Man on the Box (1914) The Call of the North (1914) The Virginian (1914) What's His Name (1914) The Man from Home (1914) Rose of the Rancho (1914) The Ghost Breaker (1914) The Girl of the Golden West (1915) After Five (1915) The Warrens of Virginia (1915) The Unafraid (1915) The Captive (1915) The Wild Goose Chase (1915) The Arab (1915) Chimmie Fadden (1915) Kindling (1915) Carmen (1915) Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915) The Cheat (1915) Temptation (1915) The Golden Chance (1915) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916) The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916) Maria Rosa (1916) The Dream Girl (1916) Joan the Woman (1916) Lost and Won (1917) A Romance of the Redwoods (1917) The Little American (1917) The Woman God Forgot (1917) Nan of Music Mountain (1917) The Devil-Stone (1917) The Whispering Chorus (1918) Old Wives for New (1918) We Can't Have Everything (1918) Till I Come Back to You (1918) The Squaw Man (1918) Don't Change Your Husband (1919) For Better, for Worse (1919) Male and Female (1919) Why Change Your Wife? (1920) Something to Think About (1920) Forbidden Fruit (1921) The Affairs of Anatol (1921) Fool's Paradise (1921) Saturday Night (1922) Manslaughter (1922) Adam's Rib (1923) The Ten Commandments (1923) Triumph (1924) Feet of Clay (1924) The Golden Bed (1925) The Road to Yesterday (1925) The Volga Boatman (1926) The King of Kings (1927) Walking Back (1928) The Godless Girl (1929)

Sound	Dynamite (1929) Madam Satan (1930) The Squaw Man (1931) The Sign of the Cross (1932) This Day and Age (1933) Four Frightened People (1934) Cleopatra (1934) The Crusades (1935) The Plainsman (1936) The Buccaneer (1938) Union Pacific (1939) North West Mounted Police (1940) Reap the Wild Wind (1942) The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) Unconquered (1947) California's Golden Beginning (1948) Samson and Delilah (1949) The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) The Ten Commandments (1956) The Buccaneer (1958)

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