''Playing With Fire'' is a
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1921 American silent comedy film directed by
Dallas M. Fitzgerald
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Fitzgeral ...
and starring
Gladys Walton
Gladys Walton (April 13, 1903 – November 15, 1993) was an American silent film actress.
Early life and career
Born in Boston, Massachusetts and educated in Portland, Oregon, Gladys Walton debuted in films at the Fox Sunshine comedy stud ...
.
Progressive Silent Film List: ''Playing With Fire''
at silentera.com
Plot
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, Enid Gregory (Walton) works in a music store. She is a regular "jazz baby" who flirts with others while keeping company with Bill Butler (Gribbon), a plumber. She finds Janet Fenwick (McGuire), a young society woman whose father committed suicide under a cloud of disgrace, so Enid gets her employer Bruce Tilford (Mack) to hire Janet to sing the ballads that she plays. Business picks up and Tilford gives the two women two days of vacation. Enid and Janet go to a fashionable hotel where they meet several of Janet's former friends. Janet becomes engaged to an old sweetheart and Enid succumbs to the embrace of Kent Lloyd (Cooley), a wealthy young man, and allows him to slip a ring
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on her finger. In the last reel, they cope with the effects of a fire.
Cast
*Gladys Walton
Gladys Walton (April 13, 1903 – November 15, 1993) was an American silent film actress.
Early life and career
Born in Boston, Massachusetts and educated in Portland, Oregon, Gladys Walton debuted in films at the Fox Sunshine comedy stud ...
as Enid Gregory
*Kathryn McGuire
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Early life
Born in Peoria, Illinois, McGuire was said to be recognized by critics and fans alike as one of the rising stars in film. Selected one of ...
as Janet Fenwick
*Eddie Gribbon
Eddie Gribbon (January 3, 1890 – September 29, 1965) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films from the 1910s to the 1950s. Gribbon began working in Mack Sennett films in 1916 and continued through the 1920s. He usuall ...
as Bill Butler
*Hayward Mack
Hayward Seaton Mack (March 20, 1882 – December 24, 1921) was an American actor of the silent era.
Born in Albany, New York, in 1882, Mack appeared in more than 80 films between 1910 and 1921. Mack's motion picture career began in 1910; he ap ...
as Bruce Tilford
* Harold Miller as Jack Taylor
*Hallam Cooley
Hallam Cooley (February 8, 1895 – March 20, 1971) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1913 and 1936. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Tiburon, California.
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as Kent Lloyd
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as Pat Isaacs
*Lydia Knott
Lydia Knott (October 1, 1866 – March 30, 1955) was an American actress of the silent film era. She appeared in more than 90 films between 1914 and 1937.
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Knott was born in Tyner, Indiana, the daughter of Lambert and Clarissa Kn ...
as Miss Seraphina
* Harriet Laurel as Maggie Turner
*Elinor Hancock
Elinor Hancock was an American actress who had a successful career on stage before appearing in many silent films. She was photographed by Alfred Witzell. She appeared in Clara Kimball Young films.
Filmography
*'' The Spirit of Romance'' (1917) ...
as Mrs. Taylor
*Danny Hoy
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as Rats
References
External links
*
The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''Playing With Fire''
Period lobby poster
* (incorrect review by Hal Erickson to this 1921 Universal film. The review he has is to the 1916 Olga Petrova
Olga Petrova (born Muriel Harding; 10 May 1884 – 30 November 1977) was a British-American actress, screenwriter and playwright.
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Born Muriel Harding in England, she moved to the United States and became a star of vaudeville u ...
film of the same name which has a review by Janiss Garza.)
1921 films
American silent feature films
Lost American films
Universal Pictures films
1921 comedy films
Silent American comedy films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Dallas M. Fitzgerald
1921 lost films
Lost comedy films
1920s American films
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