Suds (1920)

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Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1920-01-27
Director: John Francis Dillon
Writers: Waldemar Young , Richard Bryce , Frederick Fenn
Language: English
Stars: Mary Pickford , Albert Austin , Harold Goodwin (I) (1902–1987) , Rose Dione , Darwin Karr , Lavendor the Horse , Taylor N. Duncan , Joan Marsh , Nadyne Montgomery , Theodore Roberts
Runtime: 75 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Duchess of Suds (United States of America) , Suds (United States of America) , Suds , Hertiginnan som tvätterska (Sweden) , Мыльная пена (Russian Federation) , Rêve et réalité (France, French Republic) , Op O' Me Thumb (United States of America) , Suds (United Kingdom) , Σαπουνόφουσκες (Greece) , Sueño y realidad (Spain) , Sonho e Realidade (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Sapounofouskes (Greece) , Vaskerpigen (Denmark)
Plot: Amanda Afflick, a laundress with a romantic imagination, weaves a story about a shirt brought to the laundry eight months earlier by Horace Greensmith. She tells her fellow workers that the shirt belongs to her fiancé, Sir Horace, to whom her father objected and expelled from their castle, but who will one day return. While waiting for her lord, Amanda saves Lavender, the old laundry horse, from the glue factory and takes her home with her but is ousted the following morning by indignant tenants. Luckily, Lady Burke, a philanthropist, comes to Lavender's aid by providing her a home on the Burke country estate. Although the laundry driver Ben Pillsbury pines for Amanda, she ignores him, preferring to wait instead for Lord Horace. When Greensmith finally arrives for his shirt, Amanda pleads with him to pretend that he is her lover and he agrees, but later, realizing how shabby she looks, he discards her. He leaves Amanda, her romantic dreams shattered, sobbing, while Ben waits outside the laundry, disconsolate.
IMDB:tt0011741