A Manly Man
A Manly Man is a 1911 short film, starring Mary Pickford.
Cast[edit]
- William E. Shay, as ???[citation needed]
- Mary Pickford, as Elinor Williams[1][2]
- Owen Moore, as Norman Duncan[1][2]
- Isabel Rea, as Lola[citation needed]
- Charles Arling, as Petro[citation needed]
Plot[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
On 27 February 1911, it was released as A Manly Man[6]
On 23 November 1914, it was reissued as His Gratitude.[7]
Rediscovery[edit]
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]
References[edit]
- ^ a b https://www.fandango.com/a-manly-man-188993/cast-and-crew
- ^ a b https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_manly_man
- ^ Bertellini, Giorgio (15 January 2019). The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America. ISBN 9780520301368.
- ^ https://mubi.com/en/us/films/a-manly-man
- ^ "Griffithiana". 1984.
- ^ https://pickfordfilmlegacy.tripod.com/pickfordfilmography.htm
- ^ "My Best Girl / The Son's Return / A Manly Man". UCLA Film & Television Archive.
- ^ a b https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2015/03/15/my-best-girl
- ^ https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/UCLAfestivalpreservation_catalog2015.pdf
- ^ https://m.cia.edu/cinematheque/film-schedule/2016/04/my-best-girl
- ^ https://packhum.org/preserved.html The Packard Humanities Institute
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20150921043332/https://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/ucla2015
- ^ https://news.wttw.com/2015/10/01/bela-lugosi-film-among-those-restored-ucla-festival-preservation
- ^ "A Manly Man + My Best Girl". George Eastman Museum.
- ^ https://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2016/spring/ucla-festival-preservation
- ^ https://www.cia.edu/cinematheque/film-schedule/2016/04/my-best-girl
- ^ https://nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/3959
- ^ https://bampfa.org/event/my-best-girl
External links[edit]
- https://marypickford.org/filmography/a-manly-man/
- Christel Schmidt A tinted nitrate print of a rare short called "A Manly Man" (1911) is my most important discovery UCLA Film and Television Archive Project Report
- Research on the Mary Pickford titles began in the fall of 1997 and took 10 weeks to complete.
- Christel Schmidt, Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies
- https://www.allmovie.com/movie/vm59525
- https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0001772/
- http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/ManlyMan1911.html
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_manly_man
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0001772/
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