Don't Change Your Husband

★★★★★

1919 · 1 h 11 min

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille · USA · Early and Pioneering Cinema

Comedy

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Cast

Elliott Dexter Gloria Swanson Lew Cody Sylvia Ashton Theodore Roberts Julia Faye

Credits

Written by: Jeanie Macpherson

Plot

Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband's habits and divorces him, then finds her new husband is worse.

Sinekatalog’s take

Cecil B. DeMille's silent comedy, with Gloria Swanson and Elliott Dexter, is witty and lavish, one of his marriage comedies of the 1910s.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.6 / 10 (1,329 votes)
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