Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that the garment belongs to her fiancé, a lord. Just wait, Amanda boasts, one day his lordship will return for his wash — and for her.
Acting
Pickford's face does five emotions per second, no dialogue needed.
Direction
Dillon stages elaborate dream sequences that mock and pity Amanda simultaneously.
Costume
Greensmith's shirt: the MacGuffin, the fantasy, the whole plot.
Director
John Francis Dillon
Mary Pickford
Amanda Afflick
Albert Austin
Horace Greensmith
Harold Goodwin
Benjamin Pillsbury Jones
Rose Dione
Madame Jeanne Gallifilet Didier (as Rosa Dione)
Darwin Karr
The Archduke
Joan Marsh
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Theodore Roberts
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Hal Wilson
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pickford's 'America's Sweetheart' image was built on playing impoverished girls — audiences loved watching her suffer beautifully.
The film's original title was 'Sunshine,' changed because it sounded too cheerful for a movie about laundry-induced heartbreak.
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