A Manly Man (1911)
12m
Running Time
February 27, 1911Release Date
Plot.
Of the over 30 one-reelers Mary Pickford made in Cuba for Carl Laemmle’s Independent Motion Pictures Company, A Manly Man is one of few that survives today. Pickford plays Lola, a young Filipino woman who falls in love with Duncan (William E. Shay), a Caucasian man sent to her village on business. After Lola risks her life nursing his fever and saving him from a knife attack, Duncan marries her and resists the temptation to return to his American fiancée. Directed by Thomas Ince and co-starring Pickford’s first husband Owen Moore, A Manly Man was later reissued under the title His Gratitude (1914).
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Release DateFebruary 27, 1911
StatusReleased
Running Time12m
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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. Pickford and Moore appeared in several films together. The film was directed by Thomas Ince and co-stars Owen Moore, Mary Pickford's husband. It was reissued in 1914 as His Gratitude.In other films Pickford portrayed a Native American and a Mexican.