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A Manly Man

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A Manly Man
Directed byThomas H. Ince
Produced byCarl Laemmle
StarringMary Pickford
CinematographyTony Gaudio
Production
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Release date
  • February 27, 1911 (1911-02-27)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

A Manly Man, later re-released as His Gratitude, is a 1911 short film, starring Mary Pickford.

Cast

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Plot

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

Production

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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

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

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

Rediscovery

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

On October 25, 2015, 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 November 24, 2015, it was screened during the UCLA Festival of Preservation at the Eastman Museum.[14]

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

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

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

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

Notes

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

References

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  1. ^ a b "A Manly Man Cast and Crew - Cast Photos and Info". Fandango.
  2. ^ a b "A Manly Man". Rotten Tomatoes.
  3. ^ Bertellini, Giorgio (January 15, 2019). The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-52030-136-8.
  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. ^ a b "My Best Girl / The Son's Return / A Manly Man". UCLA Film & Television Archive.
  9. ^ "UCLA Festival Preservation Catalog 2015" (PDF). UCLA Film & Television Archive.
  10. ^ "My Best Girl". Cinematheque.
  11. ^ "Preserved Films". The Packard Humanities Institute.
  12. ^ "UCLA Festival of Preservation 2015". Gene Siskel Film Center. Archived from the original on September 21, 2015.
  13. ^ "Bela Lugosi Film Among Those Restored for UCLA Festival of Preservation". WTTW News. October 1, 2015.
  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". March 18, 2016.
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