Wages for Wives is a lost 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Jacqueline Logan, Creighton Hale, Earle Foxe, ZaSu Pitts, Claude Gillingwater, and David Butler. The film was released by Fox Film Corporation on December 15, 1925.[1][2][3]

Wages for Wives
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Directed byFrank Borzage
Written byKenneth B. Clarke
Based onChicken Feed; or, Wages for Wives
by John Golden
StarringJacqueline Logan
Creighton Hale
Earle Foxe
ZaSu Pitts
Claude Gillingwater
David Butler
CinematographyErnest Palmer
Production
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Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • December 15, 1925 (1925-12-15)
Running time
7 reels; 70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Plot

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As described in a review in a film magazine,[4] a new bride persuades her mother and a woman friend to join with her in leaving their husbands until they agree to a fifty-fifty split on their wages. The husbands rebel and decide to keep house for themselves, while the wives go to a big boarding house. Eventually, after the women have almost eaten their hearts out with longing, and a vamp has succeeded in complicating matters, reconciliations occur after the recalcitrant husbands have thoroughly sickened of their attempts to show their independence.

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Preservation

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With no prints of Wages for Wives located in any film archives,[5] it is a lost film.

References

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  1. ^ "Wages for Wives". afi.com. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  2. ^ "Wages for Wives". AllMovie. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  3. ^ "Wages for Wives". TCM.com. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  4. ^ Sewell, Charles S. (December 5, 1925). "Through the Box Office Window: Wages for Wives; Amusing Comedy and Pleasing Human Interest in Film Version of John Golden Stage Play". The Moving Picture World. 77 (5). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co.: 481. Retrieved October 16, 2021.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Wages for Wives
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