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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 722

Suds

192075 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 65:33
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · John Francis Dillon · Public domain

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Synopsis

Amanda works in a London laundry where her weakness and romantic hopes make her an easy target for ridicule. She invents an aristocratic past to impress her coworkers and keeps dreaming about a customer who has not returned. Her effort to rescue an exhausted laundry horse creates another unlikely bond in a life sustained by imagination and small acts of kindness.

Cast

Mary Pickford

DirectorsJohn Francis Dillon

Inspirations

The comedy draws on the one-act play 'Op o' Me Thumb. Pickford's character uses fantasy to answer humiliation at work, while the story gives equal attention to her loneliness and her compassion.

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Mary Pickford — Rufus Porter Moody · Public domain

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