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Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley: Directed by Marshall Neilan. With Mary Pickford, William Scott, Kate Price, Ida Waterman. Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe.
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley is a 1918 American silent romantic comedy film starring Mary Pickford that was directed by Marshall Neilan and written by Frances Marion based upon a novel by Belle K. Maniates.
Dec 31, 2014 · Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley is a 1918 silent film directed by Marshall Neilan, written by Frances Marion and based on a Belle K. Maniates novel Plot Set in San Francisco during the early 1900s, the film revolves around Amarilly (Mary Pickford), the daughter of a widowed scrubwoman.
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley is a 1918 American silent comedy romance film starring Mary Pickford that was directed by Marshall Neilan and written by Frances Marion based upon a novel by Belle K. Maniates.
Amarilly of Clothesline Alley (1918) flies in the face of a long tradition of films in which girls from humble backgrounds are whisked off Cinderella-style to the rich man's world. Instead, Amarilly chooses her gritty, beloved Clothesline Alley and family over the stuffiness and intolerance of the Phillips' life.
Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a rich family, and she begins to be drawn into the world of the upper class.
Mary Pickford follows her remarkable ‘Stella Maris’ with another character study scarcely less remarkable, Amarilly Jenkins in ‘Amarilly of Clothesline Alley.’The role is midway between the hopelessly tragic slavey in ‘Stella Maris’and the pathetically optimistic Stella herself. …
