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Pauline Frederick and Malcolm McGregor.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Smouldering Fires
(1924) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7356 feet
Directed by Clarence Brown

Cast: Pauline Frederick [Jane Frances Vale], Laura La Plante [Dorothy Vale], Malcolm McGregor [Robert William Elliott], Tully Marshall [Scotty MacDougal], Wanda Hawley [Lucy Kelly], George Cooper [Mugsy], Helen Lynch [Kate Brown]; Bert Roach [a committee member], Billy Gould [a committee member], Rolfe Sedan [a committee member], Jack McDonald [a committee member], William Orlamond [a committee member], Robert Mack [a committee member], Frank Newberg [a committee member], [?] ? [Kate Carter, Vale’s first secretary]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [Universal Jewel; A Clarence Brown Production]. / Scenario by Sada Cowan, Howard Higgin and Melville Brown, from a screen story by Margaret Deland, Sada Cowan and Howard Higgin. Art direction by Leo E. Kuter and E.E. Sheeley. Assistant director, Charles Dorian. Cinematography by Jackson Rose. Film editor, Edward Schroeder. Intertitles written by Dwinelle Benthall. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 25 November 1924 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP20842]. Released [?] 7 December 1924 or 18 January 1925? / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in Hirschhorn-Universal p. 49.

Survival status: Prints exist in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Businesswomen - Divorce - Love triangles - Self-sacrifice - Steam cabinets

Listing updated: 8 June 2010.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Brownlow-Parade pp. 138, 145, 290; Card-Seductive p. 52; Drew-Speaking pp. 90, 95, 97, 277; Everson-American pp. 13, 14, 202, 283, 315, 331-332; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 55; Higashi-Virgins pp. 101, 108-109; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 49; Limbacher-Feature p. 226; Vermilye-Twenties p. 126 : ClasIm-240 p. 44 : Website-AFI.