{"id":42050,"date":"2026-07-05T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42050"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:05:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:05:50","slug":"assistant-wives-1927-starring-charley-chase-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42050","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Assistant Wives&#8221; (1927) starring Charley Chase \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z070526zview_astwives.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"807\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Assistant Wives <\/i>(1927)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>James Parrott<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>H.M. Walker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Charley Chase, Edna Marion, Anita Garvin<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charley and his bride are just getting by.\u00a0 Charley needs a raise and figures if he can buddy-up to his boss, it will come.\u00a0 He invites his boss to dinner.\u00a0 Because of a misunderstanding, the boss thinks a waitress at the diner across the street is Charley&#8217;s wife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charley figures this could work to his advantage.\u00a0 Since the boss likes the waitress, Charley offers her a payday if she acts as his wife over dinner.\u00a0 Things go sideways when Charley&#8217;s wife and the waitress&#8217; boyfriend see Charley and the waitress getting chummy.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner is served!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charley Chase was an writer, director and actor.\u00a0 Although he died at a relatively young age (46), his resume includes 282 acting roles, 174 films as a director and 37 as writer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Assistant Wives<\/em>\u00a0was directed by Charley Chase&#8217;s brother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Assistant Wives <\/i>(1927)<\/strong> rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z070526zview_astwives2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Wives (1927) Director: James Parrott Screenplay: \u00a0H.M. Walker Stars:\u00a0 Charley Chase, Edna Marion, Anita Garvin. Tagline: None. The Plot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42051,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42050\/revisions\/42051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}