A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Playing with Fire
(1921) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4994 feet
Directed by Dallas M. Fitzgerald

Cast: Gladys Walton [Enid Gregory], Kathryn McGuire [Janet Fenwick], Eddie Gribbon [Bill Butler], Hayward Mack [Bruce Tilford], Harold Miller [Jack Taylor], Hallam Cooley [Kent Lloyd], Sidney Franklin [Pat Isaacs], Lydia Knott [Miss Seraphina], Harriet Laurel [Maggie Turner], Elinor Hancock [Mrs. Taylor], Danny Hoy [‘Rats’]

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Universal Special Attraction]. / Scenario by Doris Schroeder, from a screen story by J.U. Giesy and William M. Clayton. Cinematography by Milton Moore. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 10 December 1921 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP17347]. Released 19 December 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy: Romance.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 2 November 2011.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 37 : ClasIm-223 p. 58 : Website-AFI.