Smouldering Fires
Cast & Crew
Clarence Brown
Pauline Frederick
Laura La Plante
Malcolm Mcgregor
Tully Marshall
Wanda Hawley
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
At 40, Jane Vale, a domineering and successful businesswoman, falls in love with Robert Elliott, a young man employed in the factory she manages. She makes him her private secretary, and he soon asks her to marry him, both out of gratitude and to defend her reputation against the ugly gossip of his fellow workers. Before the wedding, Jane's younger sister, Dorothy, returns from college, and she and Robert fall in love, but they lack the courage to tell Jane. Robert and Jane are married, and he tries to make her happy, but everything conspires to make her feel the difference in their ages: she is worn out and worried, unsuccessfully trying to look young and unable to mingle easily with Robert's young friends. When Jane finally realizes that Robert, though he is faithful and attentive to her, is really in love with Dorothy, she pretends that she no longer loves him and asks for a divorce. Robert and Dorothy, alike in age and inclination, are thus free to find the happiness that has eluded Jane.
Director
Clarence Brown
Cast
Pauline Frederick
Laura La Plante
Malcolm Mcgregor
Tully Marshall
Wanda Hawley
Helen Lynch
George Cooper
Bert Roach
Billy Gould
Rolfe Sedan
Jack Mcdonald
William Orlamond
Robert Mack
Frank Newberg
Crew
Dwinelle Benthall
Melville Brown
Sada Cowan
Sada Cowan
Margaret Deland
Charles Dorian
Howard Higgin
Howard Higgin
Leo E. Kuter
Jackson Rose
Edward Schroeder
E. E. Sheeley
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Some exteriors were shot in Yosemite National Park. At least one source credits Leo E. Kuter as art director, while other sources credit E. E. Sheeley.
