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Smouldering Fires is a american film of genre Drama directed by Charles Dorian released in USA on 18 january 1925 with Laura La Plante
Smouldering Fires (1925)
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Add to a movie listSmouldering Fires is a 1925 Universal silent drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Pauline Frederick and Laura La Plante. The movie's plot is similar to the 1933 talking picture Female, starring Ruth Chatterton.
Copies of this film are archived by UCLA and George Eastman House. In 1953, the film entered the public domain (in the USA) due to the claimants failure to renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. It is available on video, and numerous prints exist in private collections.
^ Donald W. McCaffrey, Christopher P. Jacobs (1999). Donald W. McCaffrey, Christopher P. Jacobs, ed. Guide to the silent years of American cinema (illustrated, annotated ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 246 247. ISBN 9780313303456.
^ Hall, Mordaunt (March 31, 1925). "Smouldering Fires (1925)". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
^ Pierce, David (June 2007). "Forgotten Faces: Why Some of Our Cinema Heritage Is Part of the Public Domain". Film History: An International Journal 19 (2): 125–43. ISSN 0892-2160. OCLC 15122313. doi:10.2979/FIL.2007.19.2.125. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
^ "Pauline Frederick - Smouldering Fires (1925)". Stanford University. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
Synopsis
At 40, businesswoman Jane Vale (Pauline Frederick) falls in love with a much younger Robert Elliott (Malcolm McGregor), a employee from her factory. She promotes him to the position of her private secretary, and out of gratitude and to defend her reputation from rumors, he asks her to marry him. However, before the marriage can take place, Jane's younger sister Dorothy (Laura La Plante) returns home from college and Robert and Dorothy fall in love. Lacking the courage to confess to Jane of his love for her sister, Robert marries Jane. Robert finds that the difference in ages between him and Jane are creating complications. When Jane realizes that Robert, though diligently attentive as a husband, is actually in love with her sister, she pretends that she has fallen out of love with him and seeks a divorce.Actors
Laura La Plante
(Dorothy Vale)
Malcolm McGregor
(Robert Elliott)
Tully Marshall
(Scotty)
Wanda Hawley
(Lucy)
Pauline Frederick
(Jane Vale)
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