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The Humming Bird
(1924) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / [?] 7490 or 7577? feet
Directed by Sidney Olcott
Cast: Gloria Swanson [Toinette], Edmund Burns [Randall Carey], William Ricciardi [‘Papa’ Hacques], Cesare Gravina [Charlot], Mario Majeroni [La Roche], Adrienne d’Ambricourt [‘The Owl’], Helen Lindroth [Henrietta Rutherford], Rafael Bongini [Bouchet], Regina Quinn [Beatrice], Aurelio Coccia [Bosque], Jacques D’Auray [Zi-Zi]
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Forrest Halsey, from the play The Humming Bird by Maude Fulton. Technical advisor, Jacques D’Auray. Cinematography by Harry Fischbeck. Film editor, Patricia Rooney. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 23 January 1924 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP19848]. Released 13 January 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot at Paramount’s Astoria Studios on Long Island, New York; Swanson’s second film shot there.
Drama: Crime.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Americans (Abroad) - Apaches (French) - Churches - Criminals: Thieves (Rehabilitation) - France: Paris: Montmartre - Newspapers: Reporters - War: World War I (28 July 1914-11 November 1918)
Listing updated: 19 August 2009.
References: FilmYearBook-1926 p. 14; Hudson-Swanson pp. 164, 165; Quirk-Swanson pp. 28, 154-155, 156, 157 : with additional information provided by Manish Patwari.
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