Playing with Fire (1921 American film)

Playing With Fire is a lost 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Dallas M. Fitzgerald and starring Gladys Walton.

Playing With Fire
Film poster
Directed by	Dallas M. Fitzgerald
Written by	William M. Clayton J.U. Giesy Doris Schroeder
Produced by	Carl Laemmle
Starring	Gladys Walton
Cinematography	Milton Moore
Production company	Universal Studios
Distributed by	Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Release date	December 19, 1921 (1921-12-19)
Running time	50 minutes; 5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Plot

As described in a film magazine, 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 on her finger. In the last reel, they cope with the effects of a fire.

Cast

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

External links

• Playing with Fire at IMDb
• The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Playing With Fire
• Period lobby poster
• Synopsis at AllMovie (incorrect review by Hal Erickson to this 1921 Universal film. The review he has is to the 1916 Olga Petrova film of the same name which has a review by Janiss Garza.)