We Can't Have Everything

Name: We Can't Have Everything
Genre: comedy, drama
Released: 1918
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Kathlyn Williams, Elliott Dexter, Wanda Hawley, Sylvia Breamer, Thurston Hall

We Can't Have Everything (1918) — comedy, drama film. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Starring Kathlyn Williams, Elliott Dexter, Wanda Hawley, Sylvia Breamer. This page maps 5 characters and 7 relationships between them as an interactive character network.

Interactive Features for We Can't Have Everything

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Story Analysis

A narrative exploring romantic misalignment, wartime separation, and the eventual triumph of enduring love.

Comedy, Drama · 60 min · 1918

A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But the more they untangle one knot, the faster more confusing knots appear.

Credits

director

Cecil B. DeMille
writer

William C. deMille
novel

Rupert Hughes
actor

as Charity Coe Cheever

Kathlyn Williams
actor

as Jim Dyckman

Elliott Dexter

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Plot analysis generated from content on Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Related entry on Wikidata (Q4018655), public domain (CC0).