A Manly Man is a short film released in 1911 starring Mary Pickford 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. It is among the few surviving Mary Pickford films made in Cuba for Carl Laemmle’s Independent Moving Pictures Company. It was screened at the Eastman Museum in 2015.[1] Pickford and Moore appeared in several films together.[2] The film was directed by Thomas Ince and co-stars Owen Moore, Mary Pickford's husband. It was reissued in 1914 as His Gratitude.[3]

In other films Pickford portrayed a Native American and a Mexican.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "A Manly Man + My Best Girl | George Eastman Museum".
  2. ↑ "Griffithiana". 1984.
  3. ↑ "My Best Girl / The Son's Return / A Manly Man | UCLA Film & Television Archive". www.cinema.ucla.edu.
  4. ↑ Bertellini, Giorgio (15 January 2019). The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America. ISBN 9780520301368.


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