Your Girl and Mine explained

Your Girl and Mine
Director:Giles R. Warren
Producer:William Selig
Studio:Selig Polyscope Co.
Distributor:World Film Company
Runtime:70 minutes
Country:United States
Language:Silent film
English inter-titles

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.[1] Gilson Willets wrote the script.[2] Motography covered the film.[3] The movie was shot in Chicago, Illinois.

On October 14, 1914, the film premiered at the Auditorium Theatre, Chicago.[1] 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."[4] [5]

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.[6]

It was shown at variety of theaters nationwide over a two-year period. McCormick and the NAWSA organized to coordinate advertising and ticket sales.[6]

Cast

Cast as listed in the AFI Catalog[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Your Girl and Mine (1914) . AFI Catalog . 9 May 2022.
  2. Web site: Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 'Your Girl and Mine' Promotes Women's Suffrage. October 19, 2015.
  3. Web site: Motography (Jul-Dec 1914). July 3, 1914. Electricity Magazine Corp.. Internet Archive.
  4. Web site: The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, October 25, 1914, Image 49 ]. Lib. of Congress . 9 May 2022 . 25 October 1914.
  5. Web site: Your Girl and Mine (suffrage film). April 25, 2019. Social Welfare History Project.
  6. Web site: Mallory . Mary . How a Pioneering Silent Movie Helped Women Get the Vote . HistoryNet . 9 May 2022 . 19 February 2021.