A Manly Man

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

Cast

 * William E. Shay, as ???
 * Mary Pickford, as Elinor Williams
 * Owen Moore, as Norman Duncan
 * Isabel Rea, as Lola
 * Charles Arling, as Petro

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.

In other films Pickford portrayed a Native American and a Mexican.

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 as cinematographer and co-stars Owen Moore, Mary Pickford's husband. Pickford and Moore appeared in several films together.

Release
On 27 February 1911, it was released as A Manly Man

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

Rediscovery
A Manly Man (1911) was restored from a tinted 35mm nitrate film print of the re-titled 1914 reissue version, His Gratitude, with preservation funding provided by The American Film Institute/National Endowment for the Arts Film Preservation Grants Program and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

On 15 March 2015, it was screened at the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum by UCLA Film & Television Archive.

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.

On 24 November 2015, it was screened during the UCLA Festival of Preservation at the Eastman Museum.

On 2016/02/13, it was screened at Cinematheque @ University of Wisconsin Madison during the 2016 UCLA Festival of Preservation.

On 2016/04/24, it was screened at Cinematheque @ Cleveland Institute of Art.

On 6 May 2016, it was screened at the Northwest Film Forum

On 15 May 2016, it was screened at BAMPFA during the 2016 UCLA Festival of Preservation.