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Genre
  
Drama

Production
  
Famous Players-Lasky

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Director
  
Cecil B. DeMille

Producer
  
Cecil B. DeMille

Cast
  
Kathlyn Williams

Language
  
Silent

We Cant Have Everything Wikipedia


Writer
  
William C. de Mille
,
Rupert Hughes

Release date
  
July 7, 1918 (1918-07-07)

Similar movies
  
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We Can't Have Everything was a 1918 American silent drama film directed and written by Cecil B. DeMille based upon a novel by Rupert Hughes.

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Plot

As described in a film magazine, very much in love with her husband, Charity Coe Cheever (Williams) discovers that her husband is in love with Zada L'Etoile (Breamer), a popular dancer, and so she divorces him. Jim Dyckman (Dexter), who has always loved Charity since their childhood days, after finding it impossible to win Charity had married film actress Kedzie Thropp (Hawley). When Jim is free but Charity is not, Jim is very disappointed, but both decide to make the best of it. During one of Jim's absences Kedzie meets the young British airman, the Marquis Of Strathdene (Hatten), and falls very much in love with him. Out for a ride one evening, Jim and Charity are forced during a storm to remain in a roadhouse. Here is Kedzie's chance, she sues for divorce and marries her English aviator. The start of the war puts Jim in the trenches in Europe and Charity in a convalescent hospital, they meet again and love finally wins.

Cast

  • Kathlyn Williams as Charity Coe Cheever
  • Elliott Dexter as Jim Dyckman
  • Wanda Hawley as Kedzie Thropp
  • Sylvia Breamer as Zada L'Etoile
  • Thurston Hall as Peter Cheever
  • Raymond Hatton as Marquis Of Strathdene
  • Tully Marshall as The Director
  • Theodore Roberts as The Sultan
  • James Neill as Detective
  • Ernest Joy as Heavy
  • William Elmer as Props
  • Charles Ogle as Kedzie's Father
  • Sylvia Ashton as Kedzie's Mother
  • Preservation status

    The film is considered to be a lost film.

    References

    We Can't Have Everything Wikipedia
    We Cant Have Everything IMDb