Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Born: June 2, 1878
Died: December 6, 1957
in Paris, France
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Adrienne D'Ambricourt (born Adrienne DuNontier; 2 June 1878 – 6 December 1957) was a French actress of the silent and sound film eras. She was born in Paris, and emigrated to the United States after the end of World War I.

She began acting in the 1922 Gershwin Broadway musical comedy, The French Doll, in which she had one of the main roles, "Baroness Mazulier". She made her film debut in the 1924 silent film, The Humming Bird, where she was one of Gloria Swanson's gang of thieves who turned into resistance fighters in World War I.

With the advent of talking pictures, and before dubbing came into general use, D'Ambricourt was used in several films which were the French version of English language ones, such as Quand on est belle (The Easiest Way — 1931), L'énigmatique Mr. Parkes (Slightly Scarlet — 1930), and Nuit d'Espagne (Transgression — 1931).

She appeared in over 70 films, including such classics as Casablanca, San Francisco, and To Have And Have Not, until about 1947, after which her film career began to decline. Her final role was in George Cukor's Les Girls, starring Gene Kelly and Mitzi Gaynor, in which she played the wardrobe woman. With the advent of television, she appeared in several series during the 1950s, working right up to her death, which was caused by a heart attack during or following a car accident in Los Angeles.

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The Purple Mask
Title: The Purple Mask
Character: Madame Anais (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1955
Type: Movie
France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models headed by Laurette (really the Duc de Latour's daughter). But even she doesn't know the Purple Mask's real identity as foppish dancing master Rene...
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Bal Tabarin
Title: Bal Tabarin
Character: Madame Ramquet
Released: May 31, 1952
Type: Movie
Story of a girl who witnesses murder of notorious international jewel thief. Afraid that the gang will attack her, she flees to Paris.
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Beautiful Love
Title: Beautiful Love
Character: The deaf old lady
Released: June 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Dr. Claude Moulin leaves his wife and child for a younger woman but the child needs attention and the wife falls very ill.
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Calcutta
Title: Calcutta
Character: Croupier's Assistant (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
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Saratoga Trunk
Title: Saratoga Trunk
Character: Grandmother Dulaine (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1945
Type: Movie
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
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Paris Underground
Title: Paris Underground
Character: Margot
Released: October 18, 1945
Type: Movie
Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.
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To Have and Have Not
Title: To Have and Have Not
Character: Cashier (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
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Experiment Perilous
Title: Experiment Perilous
Character: French Instructor (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
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The White Cliffs of Dover
Title: The White Cliffs of Dover
Character: Madam at Dieppe Hotel (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1944
Type: Movie
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
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Casablanca
Title: Casablanca
Character: Concierge (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Forty Little Mothers
Title: Forty Little Mothers
Character: Miss Porter
Released: April 26, 1940
Type: Movie
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
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Two Girls on Broadway
Title: Two Girls on Broadway
Character: Miss Apricots (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
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City in Darkness
Title: City in Darkness
Character: Hotel Proprietress
Released: November 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: Mme. Marchand
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Nurse Edith Cavell
Title: Nurse Edith Cavell
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
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Bulldog Drummond's Bride
Title: Bulldog Drummond's Bride
Character: Therese
Released: July 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before they reach the altar.
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Title: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Character: French Landlady (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
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Artists and Models Abroad
Title: Artists and Models Abroad
Character: Madame Brissard
Released: December 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's wife locks them out. In his search for funds, Buck meets Patricia Harper, the fourth-richest girl in the world, but he isn't aware of that and thinks she is penniless. Patricia joins his troupe as a lark, and her father, James Harper, also pretends he is broke. Through some chicanery, Buck gets jobs for the girls as models at the Palace of Feminine Arts at the Paris International Exposition. James Harper borrows the priceless Napoleaon necklace to have a copy made for his daughter, but Buck thinks he stole it.
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I'll Give a Million
Title: I'll Give a Million
Character: Wife (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1938
Type: Movie
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
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I Met My Love Again
Title: I Met My Love Again
Character: Marie (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1938
Type: Movie
In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michael's accidental death, Julie and her daughter move back to Vermont to live with her aunt and Julie finds Ives, now a professor, disinterested in resuming their romantic relationship.
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Live, Love and Learn
Title: Live, Love and Learn
Character: The Dutchess (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
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Dangerously Yours
Title: Dangerously Yours
Character: Masseuse
Released: September 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
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We Have Our Moments
Title: We Have Our Moments
Character: Maid
Released: March 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
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Seventh Heaven
Title: Seventh Heaven
Character: Nurse
Released: March 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
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History Is Made at Night
Title: History Is Made at Night
Character: French Woman (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
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Mama Steps Out
Title: Mama Steps Out
Character: Jeanne
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Title: Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Character: Madame Odette Dessolles
Released: October 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: Madame Albani (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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Peter Ibbetson
Title: Peter Ibbetson
Character: Nun (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1935
Type: Movie
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.
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Marie Galante
Title: Marie Galante
Character: French Girl
Released: October 25, 1934
Type: Movie
On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt leaves Marie high and dry in the Yucatan, she takes work as a nightclub singer to earn her safe passage to the Canal region. But Marie faces bigger problems when she gets mixed up in a destructive plot against the U.S. Naval fleet, and so she accepts the kindly assistance of secret agent Dr. Crawbett.
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Stingaree
Title: Stingaree
Character: French Mother (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.
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The Cat and the Fiddle
Title: The Cat and the Fiddle
Character: Concierge
Released: February 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
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Design for Living
Title: Design for Living
Character: Cafe Proprietress (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1933
Type: Movie
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
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Gallant Lady
Title: Gallant Lady
Character: Nanette - Deedy's Nurse (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
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The Song of Songs
Title: The Song of Songs
Character: French Teacher
Released: July 19, 1933
Type: Movie
After her father dies, Lily moves to the city to live with her strict aunt. During the day Lily works in her aunt's bookstore, and at night she sneaks across the street to model for Richard, a sculptor with whom she falls in love. A patron of Richard's, Baron von Merzbach, develops an interest in Lily that may not be with the best of intentions.
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Disgraced!
Title: Disgraced!
Character: Madame Maxime
Released: July 7, 1933
Type: Movie
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets accused of the crime.
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The Eagle and the Hawk
Title: The Eagle and the Hawk
Character: Fifi 'Fanny'
Released: May 6, 1933
Type: Movie
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
Title: The Secret of Madame Blanche
Character: Marie (Uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
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What Price Hollywood?
Title: What Price Hollywood?
Character: French Cook (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
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War Mamas
Title: War Mamas
Character: Countess's Maid (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1931
Type: Movie
During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.
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Men in Her Life
Title: Men in Her Life
Character: Maria
Released: November 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she's broke. The bootlegger proposes a deal: he will settle her debts if she teaches him how to be "a gentleman".
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
Title: The Trial of Mary Dugan
Character: The chambermaid
Released: November 6, 1931
Type: Movie
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This Modern Age
Title: This Modern Age
Character: Marie
Released: August 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
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Transgression
Title: Transgression
Character: Julie
Released: June 27, 1931
Type: Movie
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
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Svengali
Title: Svengali
Character: Mme. Vinard (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1931
Type: Movie
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
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Scandal Sheet
Title: Scandal Sheet
Character: Flint's French Maid
Released: January 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
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Scotland Yard
Title: Scotland Yard
Character: Madame Rousseau, Innkeeper
Released: October 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A soldier is wounded in action. His face is restored by a plastic surgeon to resemble someone else.
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What a Widow!
Title: What a Widow!
Character: Paulette
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a rich playboy and a lawyer who works for her.
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The Bad One
Title: The Bad One
Character: Madame Pompier
Released: May 3, 1930
Type: Movie
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.
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Footlights and Fools
Title: Footlights and Fools
Character: Jo
Released: November 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.
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Our Modern Maidens
Title: Our Modern Maidens
Character: Parisian Housekeeper Annette (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Young vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancée Gil a diplomatic appointment. Meanwhile Gil's affections meander to beautiful ingenue Kentucky, Billie's best friend.
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
Title: The Trial of Mary Dugan
Character: Marie Ducrot
Released: June 8, 1929
Type: Movie
A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama stars Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, Lilyan Tashman and H. B. Warner.
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God Gave Me Twenty Cents
Title: God Gave Me Twenty Cents
Character: Ma Tapman
Released: November 20, 1926
Type: Movie
The story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren, who tries his best to support his wife Mary on his piddling income. But like seafaring men everywhere, Steve is constitutionally unreliable, especially when hip-swinging temptress Cassie Lang sashays into view.
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Wages of Virtue
Title: Wages of Virtue
Character: Madame Cantinière
Released: November 10, 1924
Type: Movie
A carnival strongman and his girlfriend flee to Algiers to escape a murder charge but there they are caught again in a web of jealousy, deceit and murder.
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The Humming Bird
Title: The Humming Bird
Character: The Owl
Released: January 13, 1924
Type: Movie
A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war and she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him.