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| Sleeping Fires | |
|---|---|
 Newspaper advertisement. | |
| Directed by | Hugh Ford |
| Written by | Hugh Ford (scenario) |
| Story by | George Middleton |
| Produced by | Daniel Frohman |
| Starring | Pauline Frederick |
| Cinematography | Ned Van Buren |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Sleeping Fires was a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Hugh Ford, and starring Pauline Frederick.[1][2] The film held openings at Loew's Columbia Theatre in Mansfield, OH and at Loew's Columbia in Washington, D.C.[3]
Cast
[edit]- Pauline Frederick as Zelma Bryce
- Maurice Steuart as The Little Fellow
- Helen Dahl as Helen King
- Thomas Meighan as David Gray
- Joseph W. Smiley as Joe Giles
- John St. Polis as Edwin Bryce
Censorship
[edit]Before Sleeping Fires could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the removal of the love and breakfast scenes between Bryce and secretary, and to replace the intertitle "The new housekeeper," with "Several months later, through the influence of his money, Bryce has obtained a divorce and remarried."[4]
Preservation
[edit]Sleeping Fires is currently presumed lost.[5][2] In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Katchmer, George A. (1991). Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known. McFarland. p. 646. ISBN 0-899-50494-9.
- 1 2 de Groat, Greta (April 14, 2007), The Pauline Frederick Website: Sleeping Fires (1917), stanford.edu, retrieved May 1, 2026
- ↑ "AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Sleeping Fires". afi.com. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
- ↑ A Complete list of motion picture films. Topeka: Kansas State Printing Plant. 1917. p. 7.
- ↑ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Sleeping Fires". memory.loc.gov. January 5, 2017. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved May 1, 2026. Cite error: Unknown parameter "loc" in
<ref>tag; supported parameters are dir, follow, group, name (see the help page). - ↑ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. February 4, 2021. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
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