ONLINE EVENT - A Live Virtual “Anything But Silent” Event
WHY CHANGE YOUR WIFE (1920)
starring Gloria Swanson, with Thomas Meighan
and Bebe Daniels
With Live Piano Accompaniment by Ben Model
Live
Streaming on Tuesday, April 12th at 7:00 PM Eastern Time!
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One
of the best of Cecil B. DeMille's sophisticated sex comedies of the silent era, Why Change Your Wife? hinges upon a
marriage of opposites. Husband Thomas Meighan has a fondness for wine, women and song; wife Gloria Swanson is the intellectual bookish type (we know this much
because she wears thick glasses).
When
jazz baby Bebe Daniels
enters Meighan's life, the indignant Swanson files for divorce. Realizing that
she's permitted herself to become dull and drab, the newly liberated Gloria
dolls up with a glamorous new wardrobe. Meanwhile, Meighan has become disillusioned
with new bride Bebe, who is all pizazz but no substance.
At
a fashionable summer resort, Meighan and Swanson are reunited. When Tom and
Gloria fall in love all over again, Bebe is temporarily put out, but she
consoles herself with the old battle cry Remember the Alimony!
Despite
the film's farcical trappings, Why Change
Your Wife? has more depth than the usual DeMille froth, thanks to the
three-dimensional performances of its star trio. (US, 1920, B&W, 91 min., Silent with English intertitles | Dir. Cecil B. DeMille)
Ben Model is one of America’s leading silent film accompanists, and has been playing piano and organ for silent films at the New York MoMA since 1984 and the CAC since 2006. Since March 16th, 2020, Ben has been hosting a weekly live-streamed silent film show from his living room, “The Silent Comedy Watch Party.” Click here to visit Ben's YouTube page!
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