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''The Making of a Man'' is a 1911 American
short Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as ...
silent
drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
produced by the
Biograph Company The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916. It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely to film production and exhibition ...
of New York, directed by D. W. Griffith, and starring
Dell Henderson George Delbert "Dell" Henderson (July 5, 1877 – December 2, 1956) was a Canadian-American actor, director, and writer. He began his long and prolific film career in the early days of silent film. Biography Born in the Southwestern Ontario city ...
and
Blanche Sweet Sarah Blanche Sweet (June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986) was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry. Early life Born Sarah Blanche Sweet (though her first na ...
.


Cast

* Dell Henderson as Leading Man * Blanche Sweet as Young Woman *
Edwin August Edwin August Phillip von der Butz (November 10, 1883 – March 4, 1964) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter of the silent era. August was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated from Christian Brothers College there. He act ...
as Young Woman's Family (unconfirmed) *
William J. Butler William J. Butler (1860 – 27 January 1927) was an Irish silent film actor. He appeared in more than 260 films between 1908 and 1917. An Irish immigrant to the United States, moved his family from Ohio to Hollywood, California in 1908. ...
as Young Woman's Family *
Donald Crisp Donald William Crisp (27 July 188225 May 1974) was an English film actor as well as an early producer, director and screenwriter. His career lasted from the early silent film era into the 1960s. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ...
as Actor / Backstage *
Claire McDowell Claire McDowell ( MacDowell; November 2, 1877 – October 23, 1966) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 350 films between 1908 and 1945. Early years Claire MacDowell was born in New York City on November 2, 1877, th ...
as Actress * Mabel Normand as In Second Audience *
Gladys Egan Gladys Egan (also credited as Gladys Eagan; May 24, 1900March 8, 1985) was an early 20th-century American child actress, who between 1907 and 1914 performed professionally in theatre productions as well as in scores of silent films. She began her ...
(role unspecified)Graham, Cooper C.; Steve Higgins, Elaine Mancini, and João Luiz Viera. ''D. W. Griffith and the Biograph Company''
"The Making is a Man"
Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1985, p. 123. IA. Retrieved 2 April 2021.


See also

*
D. W. Griffith filmography These are the films directed by the pioneering American filmmaker D. W. Griffith (1875–1948). According to IMDb, he directed 518 films between 1908 and 1931. 1908 * ''The Adventures of Dollie'' * '' The Fight for Freedom'' (director disputed ...
*
Blanche Sweet filmography __NOTOC__ This is the filmography for Blanche Sweet. According to the Internet Movie Database, Sweet appeared in 161 films between 1909 and 1959. ---- 1909 - 1910 - 1911 - 1912 - 1913 - 1914 - 1915 - 1916 - 1917 - 1919 - Later films ...


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* 1911 films Silent American drama films 1911 short films American silent short films Biograph Company films American black-and-white films 1911 drama films Films directed by D. W. Griffith 1910s American films {{1910s-short-drama-film-stub