Why Change Your Wife?

1920 film by Cecil B. DeMille
Movie silent_film Q1673228
Why Change Your Wife?
Employee(s) of Paramount Pictures · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Why Change Your Wife?

Summary

Why Change Your Wife? is a silent film[1]. Why Change Your Wife? ranks in the top 7% of silent_film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (67 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Why Change Your Wife?'s instance of is recorded as silent film[3].
  • Why Change Your Wife? was directed by Cecil B. DeMille[4].
  • William Churchill deMille wrote the screenplay for Why Change Your Wife?[5].
  • Olga Printzlau wrote the screenplay for Why Change Your Wife?[6].
  • Sada Cowan wrote the screenplay for Why Change Your Wife?[7].
  • Why Change Your Wife?'s genre is silent film[8].
  • Why Change Your Wife?'s genre is comedy film[9].
  • A cast member of Why Change Your Wife? was Gloria Swanson[10].
  • A cast member of Why Change Your Wife? was Thomas Meighan[11].
  • A cast member of Why Change Your Wife? was Bebe Daniels[12].
  • A cast member of Why Change Your Wife? was Theodore Kosloff[13].
  • A cast member of Why Change Your Wife? was William Boyd[14].
  • A cast member of Why Change Your Wife? was Julia Faye[15].
  • A cast member of Why Change Your Wife? was Sylvia Ashton[16].
  • A cast member of Why Change Your Wife? was Jane Wolfe[17].
  • A cast member of Why Change Your Wife? was Lucien Littlefield[18].
  • A cast member of Why Change Your Wife? was Mayme Kelso[19].
  • A cast member of Why Change Your Wife? was Clarence Burton[20].
  • Why Change Your Wife? was produced by Cecil B. DeMille[21].
  • Why Change Your Wife? was produced by Jesse Louis Lasky[22].
  • Why Change Your Wife?'s production company is recorded as Famous Players-Lasky Corporation[23].
  • Why Change Your Wife?'s director of photography is recorded as Alvin Wyckoff[24].
  • Why Change Your Wife?'s Commons category is recorded as Why Change Your Wife?[25].
  • Why Change Your Wife?'s color is recorded as black-and-white[26].
  • Why Change Your Wife?'s country of origin is recorded as United States[27].

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Authorship and Creation

Producers include Cecil B. DeMille[21] and Jesse Louis Lasky[22]. Why Change Your Wife? was directed by Cecil B. DeMille[4]. Screenwriters include William Churchill deMille[5], Olga Printzlau[6], and Sada Cowan[7]. Cast members include Gloria Swanson[10], Thomas Meighan[11], Bebe Daniels[12], Theodore Kosloff[13], William Boyd[14], and Julia Faye[15].

Publication

Publication dates include February 29, 1920[28], April 11, 1921[29], September 19, 1921[30], March 10, 1922[31], and April 7, 1922[32]. Genres include silent film[8] and comedy film[9].

Why It Matters

Why Change Your Wife? ranks in the top 7% of silent_film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (67 views/month).[2] Why Change Your Wife? has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Why Change Your Wife? is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Executive producer Jesse Louis Lasky
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    Production designer Wilfred Buckland
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