A Manly Man

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

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

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

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.[11]

On 15 March 2015, it was screened at the Billy Wilder Theater in the

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]

References

External links

Research on the Mary Pickford titles began in the fall of 1997 and took 10 weeks to complete.
article by Christel Schmidt of the Library's Publishing Office, for the March-April 2013 issue of the Library of Congress Magazine