Her Awakening

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{{Infobox film

| name = Her Awakening

| image = Mabel Normand in Her Awakening.jpg

| alt = Black and white photograph showing actress Mabel Normand with actor Harry Hyde in period costume

| caption = Mabel Normand and Harry Hyde

| director = D. W. Griffith

| producer = Biograph Company

| writer =

| narrator =

| starring = {{Plainlist|

• Mabel Normand
• Harry Hyde
• Kate Bruce

}}

| music =

| cinematography = G. W. Bitzer

| editing =

| distributor = General Film Company

| released = {{Film date|1911|9|28|United States}}

| runtime = 18 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

Her Awakening is a 1911 American short silent drama film starring Mabel Normand and directed by D. W. Griffith. Normand portrays a vivaciously effervescent young woman ashamed to introduce her poorly dressed mother to her elegant suitor. This early drama helped launch Normand's career and is believed to have been her second film and first substantial role. The supporting cast features Harry Hyde, Kate Bruce, Donald Crisp and Robert Harron.

The film was produced by the Biograph Company when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century{{cite book |last=Koszarski |first=Richard |title=Fort Lee: The Film Town |location=Rome, Italy |publisher=John Libbey |year=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5w0r8YKan04C&q=Fort+Lee:+the+film+town+Door+Richard+Koszarski |isbn=978-0-86196-653-0}}{{cite web |title=Studios and Films |publisher=Fort Lee Film Commission |url=http://www.fortleefilm.org/studios.html |access-date=May 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020130551/http://fortleefilm.org/studios.html |archive-date=October 20, 2018 |url-status=dead}}{{cite book |author=Fort Lee Film Commission |title=Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2006 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ViR3b72xkK0C&q=Fort+Lee+Birthplace+of+the+Motion+Picture+Industry |isbn=978-0-7385-4501-1}} and was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 2006 as part of a one-night program about the city's brief reign as movie capital of the United States.