don not change your husband be another soap opera comedy from producer or director cecil b. de mille . it be notable a the first of several film he make star gloria swanson . i guess you could also call it a sequel of sort to his old wife for new ( 1918 ) . james ( elliot dexter ) and leila ( swanson ) porter be a forty ish couple where james have go to seed and become slovenly and lazy . he have a penchant for smelly cigar and eat raw onion . he take his wife for grant . leila try to get him to straighten out to no avail . one night at a dinner party at the porter and leila meet the dash schyler van sutphen ( now there a moniker ) and the playboy nephew of socialite mrs. huckney ( sylvia ashton ) . she invite leila to her home for the weekend to make james miss her . once there schyler begin to put the move on her and promise her pleasure and wealth and love and if she will leave her husband and go with him . the sequence involve leila imagine this promise new life be lavishly stag and forecast de mille epic costume dram later in his career . leila and bore with her marriage and her disinterested husband and divorce james and marry the playboy . james ultimately realize that he have lose the only thing that matter to him and begin to mend his way . he shave off his mustache and work out and shun onion and re acquire some manner . meanwhile and all be not rosy with leila new marriage . schyler it seem like to gamble and have take up with the gold digging nanette ( aka tootsie and or some such name ) ( julia faye ) . schyler lose all of his money and steal leila diamond ring to cover his loss . one fateful day and leila meet the new james and be take by the change in him . james drive her home and become aware of her situation and . this film mark the beginning of gloria swanson rise to super stardom in a career that would rival that of mary pickford . barely 20 year of age and she have begin her career in mack sennett two reel comedy a a teen ager . elliot dexter be almost 50 at this time but he and swanson make a good team and although it hard to imagine anyone tiring of the lovely miss swanson a be the case in this film . dexter and sylvia ashton have appear in the similar old wife for new where the wife have go to seed and the husband be wrong . also in the cast be de mille regular theodore robert a a bishop and raymond hatton a a gambler .