A Manly Man

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).

Country:

United States of America

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Duration:

12 minutes

Year:

1911

Director:

Thomas H. Ince

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Company:

Independent Moving Pictures Co. of America (IMP)

Cast:

Lola

Norman Duncan

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Director

Producer

Producer