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A Manly Man
A Manly Man
Directed by	Thomas H. Ince
Produced by	Carl Laemmle
Production; company	Independent Moving Pictures
Release date	February 27, 1911;
Country	United States
Language	Silent

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

Cast

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

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 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

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 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]