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

Cast edit

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

  1. ^ a b https://www.fandango.com/a-manly-man-188993/cast-and-crew
  2. ^ a b https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_manly_man
  3. ^ Bertellini, Giorgio (15 January 2019). The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America. ISBN 9780520301368.
  4. ^ https://mubi.com/en/us/films/a-manly-man
  5. ^ "Griffithiana". 1984.
  6. ^ https://pickfordfilmlegacy.tripod.com/pickfordfilmography.htm
  7. ^ "My Best Girl / The Son's Return / A Manly Man". UCLA Film & Television Archive.
  8. ^ a b https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2015/03/15/my-best-girl
  9. ^ https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/UCLAfestivalpreservation_catalog2015.pdf
  10. ^ https://m.cia.edu/cinematheque/film-schedule/2016/04/my-best-girl
  11. ^ https://packhum.org/preserved.html The Packard Humanities Institute
  12. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20150921043332/https://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/ucla2015
  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. ^ https://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2016/spring/ucla-festival-preservation
  16. ^ https://www.cia.edu/cinematheque/film-schedule/2016/04/my-best-girl
  17. ^ https://nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/3959
  18. ^ https://bampfa.org/event/my-best-girl

External links edit

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