Don't Change Your Husband
About Don't Change Your Husband
In the summer of 1928 in Shanghai, Wang Qiping is fired and then finds that his wife Xie Lijun is involved with the college student Chen Mengtian. Lijun goes to Chen's house and sees him with another woman. Her mother brings her home. A lawyer's letter asks Qiping to sign divorce papers. Chen's father orders him home for an arranged marriage. Lijun collapses, then runs to the beach to throw herself into the sea. Qiping stops her and says he still loves her.
Cast & crew
More about Don't Change Your Husband
Xie Yunqing, billed in English as Y. C. Zai, directed and plays Lijun's father. Zhou Shimu and Yan Bingheng photographed it. Hu Xuguang designed the sets. The Chinese title is Qinghai chongwen (情海重吻). English titles include Kisses Once and Kissed Again in a Sea of Love. The print has Chinese and English intertitles. It is often linked to the 1919 Hollywood film of the same English name.
Themes
Background
A Shanghai silent drama of 1929, made while Chinese features were still issued with both Chinese and English titles for mixed audiences.
Making
The surviving print carries bilingual title cards, and an English re-translation of the Chinese titles has been posted with the film.
Look
Zhou Shimu and Yan Bingheng photographed the Shanghai rooms and the beach.
Music
Silent, with Chinese and English intertitles.
Preservation
A copy with bilingual titles is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Wang Naidong, billed Lyton Wong, plays Qiping. Tang Tianxiu, billed T. S. Tong, plays Lijun.
- Chen Yitang plays Chen Mengtian. Yang Aizhen plays Qiping's mother. Wang Xieyan plays Lijun's mother.
- Wang Naidong later played opposite Ruan Lingyu in New Women (1935).
- Chinese Film Classics dates the story to the summer of 1928.
Scenes
- Lijun finds Chen with another woman.
- Qiping pulls her back from the sea.
Influenced by
- Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Don't Change Your Husband (1929).webm)