Your Girl and Mine is a 1914 film promoting woman's suffrage. It was sponsored by Ruth Hanna McCormick as well as the National American Woman Suffrage Association NAWSA. It was produced by William Selig and directed by Giles R. Warren.[1] Gilson Willets wrote the script.[2] Motography covered the film.[3] The movie was shot in Chicago, Illinois.[4]

Your Girl and Mine
Directed byGiles R. Warren
Written byGilson Willets
Produced byWilliam Selig
Production
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Distributed byWorld Film Company
Release date
  • 1914 (1914)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
English inter-titles

On October 14, 1914, the film premiered at the Auditorium Theatre, Chicago.[1] McCormick wrote about the film for the Richmond Times-Dispatch stating the "melodramatic photoplay will prove as effective in gaining Votes for Women as Uncle Tom's Cabin was in the abolition of slavery."[5][6]

The film featured Katharine Kaelred, Olive Wyndham, and Grace Darmond. Also appearing was Anna Howard Shaw addressing a suffrage convention. The complete cast had more than 400 members.[4]

It was shown at variety of theaters nationwide over a two-year period. McCormick and the NAWSA organized to coordinate advertising and ticket sales.[4]

Cast

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Cast as listed in the AFI Catalog[1]

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Your Girl and Mine (1914)". AFI Catalog. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 'Your Girl and Mine' Promotes Women's Suffrage". October 19, 2015.
  3. ^ "Motography (Jul-Dec 1914)". Electricity Magazine Corp. July 3, 1914 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ a b c Mallory, Mary (19 February 2021). "How a Pioneering Silent Movie Helped Women Get the Vote". HistoryNet. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  5. ^ "The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, October 25, 1914, Image 49". Lib. of Congress. 25 October 1914. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Your Girl and Mine (suffrage film)". Social Welfare History Project. April 25, 2019.
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