A Manly Man

• William E. Shay, as ???
• Mary Pickford, as Elinor Williams[1][2]
• Owen Moore, as Norman Duncan[1][2]
• Isabel Rea, as Lola
• Charles Arling, as Petro

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.

In other films Pickford portrayed a Native American and a Mexican.[3]

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]

On 27 February 1911, it was released as A Manly Man[6]

On 23 November 1914, it was reissued as His Gratitude.[7]

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]

• 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
  • ISBN 9780813136479
  • https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jctjq

article by Christel Schmidt of the Library's Publishing Office, for the March-April 2013 issue of the Library of Congress Magazine

• 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/