As described by director Cecil B. DeMille in his autobiography, Why Change Your Wife? stars Gloria Swanson "as an exceedingly prim and proper wife whose virtues are her only vices and whose efforts to impose her tastes and perfectionism upon her husband cause her to lose him to another, more attractive woman, until at last the wife learns that being virtuous does not mean being dowdy and that being cultured is not inconsistent with being human."

Wlliam deMille produced and directed Miss Lulu Bett, a film of extraordinary conviction and insight. It was then often the custom for unmarried women to lodge with family; thus we discover Miss Lulu in a boring Midwestern town, an exploited household drudge for her sister and her overbearing brother-in-law.