We Can't Have Everything

{{short description|1918 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = We Can't Have Everything

| image = We Can't Have Everything - glass slide - 1918.jpg

| caption = Glass slide

| director = Cecil B. DeMille
Sam Wood (asst. director)

| producer = Cecil B. DeMille
Jesse L. Lasky

| writer = William C. de Mille

| based_on = {{based on|We Can't Have Everything|Rupert Hughes}}

| starring = Kathlyn Williams

| cinematography = Alvin Wyckoff

| editing = Anne Bauchens
Cecil B. DeMille

| studio = Famous Players–Lasky

| distributor = Paramount Pictures
Artcraft Pictures

Famous Players-Lasky

| released = {{Film date|1918|7|7}}

| runtime = 60 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

File:We Cant Have Everything poster 1918 Artcraft Pictures.jpg

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/W/WeCantHaveEverything1918.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: We Can't Have Everything |access-date=June 21, 2008|work=silentera.com}}{{cite book|last=Louvish|first=Simon|title=Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art|year=2008|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-312-37733-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/cecilbdemillelif00louv/page/161 161]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/cecilbdemillelif00louv/page/161}}{{cite book |last=Birchard |first=Robert S. |title=Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |chapter=We Can't Have Everything |year=2009 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h8I1dEf7GqIC |isbn=978-0-8131-2324-0}} Art direction for the film was done by Wilfred Buckland.{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/17289-WE-CANTHAVEEVERYTHING |title=We Can't Have Everything |work=afi.com |access-date=April 6, 2024}}

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Plot

As described in a film magazine,{{cite journal |title=Reviews: We Can't Have Everything |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=7 |issue=6 |page=52 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=August 10, 1918 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald07exhi}} 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

Preservation

With no prints of We Can't Have Everything located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.{{cite web |url=https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10355/ |title=American Silent Feature Film Database: We Can't Have Everything |access-date=April 6, 2024 |publisher=Library of Congress}}

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