{{short description|1917 film}} {{distinguish|The Hungry Heart}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = A Hungry Heart | image = The Hungry Heart.jpg | caption = film poster | director = Emile Chautard | producer = William A. Brady | writer = Frances Marion | based_on = play, ''Frou-Frou'', by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy | starring = Alice Brady | cinematography = Lucien Tainguy | editing = | distributor = World Film Corporation | released = {{Film date|1917|02|05}} | runtime = 5 reels | country = USA | language = Silent (English intertitles) }} '''''A Hungry Heart''''' is a 1917 silent film drama directed by Emile Chautard and starring Alice Brady. It was produced and distributed by World Film Corporation.<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HungryHeart1917-1.html ''A Hungry Heart'' at silentera.com]</ref>
It is sometimes called ''The Hungry Heart'' but shouldn't be confused with the Pauline Frederick film of the same year. ''A Hungry Heart'' was adapted for the screen by Frances Marion based on a stage play titled ''Frou-Frou'' by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy, while the Frederick film was based on a 1909 novel called ''The Hungry Heart''.<ref name="afi">{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/16944-A-HUNGRYHEART |title=AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''A Hungry Heart'' |work=afi.com |access-date=May 7, 2026}}</ref>
==Cast== * Alice Brady - Frou Frou * Edward Langford - Comte Paul de Valreas * George MacQuarrie - Marquis Henri de Sartorys * Gerda Holmes - Louise Brigard * Alec B. Francis - M. Brigard * John Dudley - Baron de Combri * Edna Whistler - Baronne de Combri * Charles Harley - Pitou * Josephine Earle - Pauline * Horace Haine - Gaston * Ray Carrara - Georgie de Sartorys * Mathilde Brundage - Mother of Comte de Valreas
==Preservation== ''A Hungry Heart'' is currently presumed lost.<ref name=''LOC''>{{Cite web |date=2017-01-05 |others= |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''A Hungry Heart'' |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6350/default.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321125114/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6350/default.html |archive-date=2023-03-21 |access-date=2026-05-07 |website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref> In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.<ref name="Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films">{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/SFF-LostFilmsList020421.pdf |title=7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29) |publisher=National Film Preservation Board |date=2021-02-04 |access-date=May 7, 2026}}</ref>
==See also== *''The Toy Wife'' (1938)
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0008125/ A Hungry Heart at IMDb.com] {{Émile Chautard}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hungry Heart, A}} Category:1917 films Category:American silent feature films Category:American films based on plays Category:Films directed by Emile Chautard Category:American black-and-white films Category:World Film Company films Category:1917 drama films Category:Films about sisters Category:1917 lost films Category:English-language drama films Category:1917 American films Category:1917 English-language films Category:Lost American silent drama films
{{1910s-lost-drama-film-stub}}