The Humming Bird

{{short description|1924 film by Sidney Olcott}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2014}} {{infobox film | name = The Humming Bird | image = Hummingbird lobby card.jpg | caption = Lobby card | director = Sidney Olcott | producer = Adolph Zukor<br>Jesse L. Lasky | writer = Forrest Halsey (scenario) | based_on = {{based on|''The Humming Bird''|Maude Fulton}} | starring = Gloria Swanson | music = | cinematography = Harry Fischbeck | editing = Patricia Rooney | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = {{film date|1924|1|13}} | runtime = 80 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} right|thumb|Colonial Theater Ad, 1924 '''''The Humming Bird''''' (also known as '''''Les loups de Montmartre''''') is a 1924 American silent crime drama film directed by Sidney Olcott and starring Gloria Swanson. Produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film is based on the play of the same name by Maude Fulton, who also starred in the Broadway production.<ref>{{cite book|editor=White Munden, Kenneth|title=The American Film Institute Catalog Of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930, Part 1|year=1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=0-520-20969-9|page=368}}</ref><ref name=silentera>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HummingBird1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Humming Bird''] at silentera.com</ref>

==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref>{{cite journal|last=Pardy|first=George T.|title=Box Office Reviews: ''The Humming Bird''|journal=Exhibitors Trade Review|volume=15|issue=10|pages=27|publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation|date=26 January 1924|location=New York|url=https://archive.org/details/exhibit00newy/page/n632/mode/1up|accessdate=25 July 2022}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> Toinette, alias "The Humming Bird" and member of the Apaches, commits many successful robberies in Paris while disguised as a young man. She falls in love with Randall Carey, an American newspaper correspondent. Randall joins the army when war breaks out. Toinette persuades her Apache confederate to enlist. She is jailed, but escapes during a Zeppelin bombardment and joins her wounded lover at his aunt's residence. The authorities pardon her and she finds happiness with Randall.

==Cast== {{Cast listing| *Gloria Swanson as Toinette *Edmund Burns as Randall Carey *William Ricciardi as Papa Jacques *Cesare Gravina as Charlot *Mario Majeroni as La Roche *Adrienne D'Ambricourt as The Owl *Helen Lindroth as Henrietta Rutherford *Rafael Bonqini as Bouchet *Regina Quinn as Beatrice *Aurelio Coccia as Bosque *Jacques D'Auray as Zi-Zi }}

==Production== The film was shot at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens.<ref name=silentera/>

==Preservation== A print of ''The Humming Bird'' is housed at the Library of Congress and the Nederlands Filmmuseum.<ref>[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2465/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature film Survival Catalog: ''The Humming Bird'']</ref><ref>''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artist Collection at The Library of Congress'', p. 85, c.1978 by The American Film Institute</ref>

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==External links== {{commons category|The Humming Bird}} *{{IMDb title|0015004|The Humming Bird}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20130722234141/http://silenthollywood.com/thehummingbird1924.html Lobby card and still] at silenthollywood.com *{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.sidneyolcott.com/Humming_Bird.htm ''The Humming Bird''] at website dedicated to Sidney Olcott *[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/68/a7/ce/68a7ced3eb481201cc8df73a15489dc6.jpg Long poster; probably an Australian daybill]

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