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26 January 1919 (USA) moreGenre:
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Leila porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Corn Beef and Cabbage moreCast
(Complete credited 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 |
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Filming began on 7 November 1918, but was interrupted less than an hour later when (false) reports that the war was over reached Paramount, and everyone was sent home for the rest of the day. moreQuotes:
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Visually, 'Don't Change Your Husband' is a pretty film, with lush interiors, and that's typical of a Cecil B. DeMille film. Unfortunately, this is overall a very superficial film, which is also typical of DeMille's films. At least, 'Don't Change Your Husband' isn't as insultingly commercial or absurd as 'Male and Female' and other subsequent DeMille pictures. Additionally, Elliott Dexter's transformation as Mr. Porter is impressive.
This is a superficial film by a superficial filmmaker and likewise the characters are superficial. The story is about a wife who leaves her foolish husband because he eats onions before kissing her, his shoes are old and he's sloppy with his cigar smoking and because the other man shows her an exotic fantasy scene instead of his vices while courting her. I can't take this kind of film seriously and, thankfully, DeMille doesn't ask for one to. The treatment is often light and the dramatic parts don't drag that down too much. It's better that the film is just fluffy rather than pretentious. 'Don't Change Your Husband' is the second in DeMille's trilogy on extramarital relationships, between two other catchy titles: 'Old Wives for New' and 'Why Change Your Wife?'