A Manly Man

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A Manly Man
Directed by Thomas H. Ince
Produced by Carl Laemmle
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  • February 27, 1911 (1911-02-27)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent

A Manly Man is a 1911 short film, starring Mary Pickford.

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Cast

Plot

Mary Pickford stars as a Filipino woman who falls for a white man portrayed by William E. Shay and nurses him back to health when he is struck by fever.[ citation needed ]

In other films Pickford portrayed a Native American and a Mexican. [3]

Production

It is among the few surviving Mary Pickford films made in Cuba for Carl Laemmle’s Independent Moving Pictures Company.

The film was directed by Thomas Ince, with Tony Gaudio [4] as cinematographer and co-stars Owen Moore, Mary Pickford's husband. Pickford and Moore appeared in several films together. [5]

Release

On 27 February 1911, it was released as A Manly Man [6]

On 23 November 1914, it was reissued as His Gratitude. [7]

Rediscovery

A Manly Man (1911) was restored from a tinted 35mm nitrate film print of the re-titled 1914 reissue version, His Gratitude, [8] with preservation [9] funding provided by The American Film Institute/National Endowment for the Arts Film Preservation Grants Program [10] and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. [11]

On 15 March 2015, it was screened at the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum by UCLA Film & Television Archive. [8]

On 2015/10/25, it was screened at the Gene Siskel Film Center during the 2015 UCLA Festival of Preservation, a touring series of ten programs from the UCLA Film & Television Archive's latest restoration efforts. [12] [13]

On 24 November 2015, it was screened during the UCLA Festival of Preservation at the Eastman Museum. [14]

On 2016/02/13, it was screened at Cinematheque @ University of Wisconsin Madison during the 2016 UCLA Festival of Preservation. [15]

On 2016/04/24, it was screened at Cinematheque @ Cleveland Institute of Art. [16]

On 6 May 2016, it was screened at the Northwest Film Forum [17]

On 15 May 2016, it was screened at BAMPFA during the 2016 UCLA Festival of Preservation. [18]

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References

  1. 1 2 "A Manly Man Cast and Crew - Cast Photos and Info".
  2. 1 2 "A Manly Man | Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes .
  3. ↑ Bertellini, Giorgio (15 January 2019). The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America. Univ of California Press. ISBN   9780520301368.
  4. ↑ "A Manly Man (1911) | MUBI".
  5. ↑ "Griffithiana". 1984.
  6. ↑ "Mary Pickford Filmography".
  7. ↑ "My Best Girl / The Son's Return / A Manly Man". UCLA Film & Television Archive.
  8. 1 2 "My Best Girl / The Son's Return / A Manly Man | UCLA Film & Television Archive".
  9. ↑ https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/UCLAfestivalpreservation_catalog2015.pdf
  10. ↑ "MY BEST GIRL | Cinematheque".
  11. ↑ https://packhum.org/preserved.html The Packard Humanities Institute
  12. ↑ "UCLA Festival of Preservation 2015 | Gene Siskel Film Center". Archived from the original on 2015-09-21.
  13. ↑ https://news.wttw.com/2015/10/01/bela-lugosi-film-among-those-restored-ucla-festival-preservation
  14. ↑ "A Manly Man + My Best Girl". George Eastman Museum.
  15. ↑ "UCLA FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION | Cinematheque".
  16. ↑ "MY BEST GIRL | Cinematheque".
  17. ↑ "Northwest Film Forum :: Calendar :: My Best Girl".
  18. ↑ "My Best Girl". 18 March 2016.
Research on the Mary Pickford titles began in the fall of 1997 and took 10 weeks to complete.
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