We Can't Have Everything

We Can't Have Everything
We Can't Have Everything
	Glass slide
Directed by	Cecil B. DeMille; Sam Wood (asst. director)
Written by	William C. de Mille
Based on	We Can't Have Everything; by Rupert Hughes
Produced by	Cecil B. DeMille; Jesse L. Lasky
Starring	Kathlyn Williams
Cinematography	Alvin Wyckoff
Edited by	Anne Bauchens; Cecil B. DeMille
Production; company	Famous Players–Lasky
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures; Artcraft Pictures; Famous Players-Lasky
Release date	July 7, 1918;
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

We Can't Have Everything was a 1918 American silent drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and adapted for the screen by his brother, William C. De Mille. The film was based upon a 1917 novel of the same name by Rupert Hughes.^[1]^[2]^[3] Art direction for the film was done by Wilfred Buckland.^[4]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[5] 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

With no prints of We Can't Have Everything located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[1]^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b "Progressive Silent Film List: We Can't Have Everything". silentera.com. Retrieved June 21, 2008.
^ Louvish, Simon (2008). Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art. Macmillan. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-312-37733-5.
^ Birchard, Robert S. (2009). "We Can't Have Everything". Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2324-0.
^ "We Can't Have Everything". afi.com. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
^ "Reviews: We Can't Have Everything". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (6). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 52. August 10, 1918.
^ "American Silent Feature Film Database: We Can't Have Everything". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 6, 2024.

External links

We Can't Have Everything at IMDb
Hughes, Rupert (1917), We Can't Have Everything, New York: Harper and Brothers Publishing, on the Internet Archive

[silentera-1] "Progressive Silent Film List: We Can't Have Everything". silentera.com. Retrieved June 21, 2008.

[2] Louvish, Simon (2008). Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art. Macmillan. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-312-37733-5.

[3] Birchard, Robert S. (2009). "We Can't Have Everything". Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2324-0.

[afi-4] "We Can't Have Everything". afi.com. Retrieved April 6, 2024.

[5] "Reviews: We Can't Have Everything". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (6). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 52. August 10, 1918.

[American_Silent_Feature_Film_Database-6] "American Silent Feature Film Database: We Can't Have Everything". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 6, 2024.

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