Your Girl and Mine
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{{Infobox film
| name = Your Girl and Mine
| image = Your Girl and Mine, 1914. Film advertisement.jpg
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| director = Giles R. Warren
| producer = William Selig
| writer = Gilson Willets
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| starring =
| music =
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| studio = Selig Polyscope Co.
| distributor = World Film Company
| released = {{film date|1914}}
| runtime = 70 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent film
English inter-titles
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Your Girl and Mine is a 1914 film promoting woman's suffrage. It was sponsored by Ruth Hanna McCormick as well as the National American Woman Suffrage Association NAWSA. It was produced by William Selig and directed by Giles R. Warren.{{cite web |title=Your Girl and Mine (1914) |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/13756 |website=AFI Catalog |access-date=9 May 2022}} Gilson Willets wrote the script.{{Cite web|url=https://ladailymirror.com/2015/10/19/mary-mallory-hollywood-heights-your-girl-and-mine-promotes-womens-suffrage/|title=Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 'Your Girl and Mine' Promotes Women's Suffrage|date=October 19, 2015}} Motography covered the film.{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/motography12elec|title=Motography (Jul-Dec 1914)|date=July 3, 1914|publisher=Electricity Magazine Corp.|via=Internet Archive}} The movie was shot in Chicago, Illinois.
On October 14, 1914, the film premiered at the Auditorium Theatre, Chicago. McCormick wrote about the film for the Richmond Times-Dispatch stating the "melodramatic photoplay will prove as effective in gaining Votes for Women as Uncle Tom's Cabin was in the abolition of slavery."{{cite web |title=The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, October 25, 1914, Image 49 |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038615/1914-10-25/ed-1/seq-49/ |website=Lib. of Congress |access-date=9 May 2022 |date=25 October 1914}}{{Cite web|url=https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/your-girl-and-mine-suffrage-film/|title=Your Girl and Mine (suffrage film)|date=April 25, 2019|website=Social Welfare History Project}}
The film featured Katharine Kaelred, Olive Wyndham, and Grace Darmond. Also appearing was Anna Howard Shaw addressing a suffrage convention. The complete cast had more than 400 members.{{cite web |last1=Mallory |first1=Mary |title=How a Pioneering Silent Movie Helped Women Get the Vote |url=https://www.historynet.com/suffragette-cinema/ |website=HistoryNet |access-date=9 May 2022 |date=19 February 2021}}
It was shown at variety of theaters nationwide over a two-year period. McCormick and the NAWSA organized to coordinate advertising and ticket sales.
Cast
Cast as listed in the AFI Catalog
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- Olive Wyndham as Rosalind Fairlie
- Clara Smith as Aunt Jane
- John Charles as Ben Austin
- Katherine Henry as Kate Price
- Walter Roberts as Old Austin
- Mrs. Tony West as Mrs. Austin
- Charlotte Stevens as Helen
- Ruth Grove as Beatrice
- Katharine Kaelred as Eleanor Holbrook/Belle Justly
- Francis Lenze as Rickets
- Sydney Booth as Lt. Governor Richard Burbank
- Grace Darmond as Equal Suffrage, an allegorical figure
- Margaret Collier as Justice, an allegorical figure
- Dr. Anna Howard Shaw as herself
- Helen Ware
- Louis Mann
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Gallery
File:Your Girl and Mine ad 1.jpg|"Your Girl and Mine" advertisement
File:Your Girl and Mine scene.png|Still from the silent film "Your Girl and Mine", 1914
File:Still from the silent film Your Girl and Mine, 1914.jpg|Still from the silent film "Your Girl and Mine", 1914
File:Equal Suffrage League of Richmond, Va., February 1915.jpg|Equal Suffrage League of Richmond, Va. in front of Washington Monument, Capitol Square, Richmond. The members of the ESL were promoting the suffrage film, "Your Girl and Mine.", February 1915
See also
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0004842|Your Girl and Mine: A Woman Suffrage Play}}
- [https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/women-fight-for-the-vote/about-this-exhibition/new-tactics-for-a-new-generation-1890-1915/marketing-of-the-movement/suffrage-and-the-silver-screen/ Shall Not Be Denied, Library of Congress exhibit]
Further reading
- [https://daily.jstor.org/how-womens-suffrage-has-been-represented-in-american-film/ How Women’s Suffrage Has Been Represented in American Film]
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Category:Media about women's suffrage in the United States
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:1910s English-language films
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