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Why Change Your Wife?
UNITED STATES · 1920

Why Change Your Wife?

Cecil B. DeMille
marriage and divorce infidelity personal transformation superficiality vs. depth rekindled romance
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Synopsis

Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.

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