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Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley is a american film of genre Drama directed by Marshall Neilan released in USA on 10 march 1918 with Mary Pickford

Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918)

Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
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Released in USA 10 march 1918
Length 1h7
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Romance
Rating60% 3.046893.046893.046893.046893.04689

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.

Synopsis

Set in San Francisco during the early 1900s, the film revolves around Amarilly (Mary Pickford), the daughter of a widowed scrubwoman. Amarilly is proud of her hard-working Irish family, and takes care of her five roughhouse brothers. She is engaged to bartender Terry McGowan (William Scott), who gets her a job as a cigarette girl in his cafe after a fire unfairly causes her to lose her job as a theater scrubwoman. While working as a cigarette girl, she meets Gordon Phillips (Norman Kerry), a handsome and wealthy but frivolous young man, who is a society sculptor.

Actors

Mary Pickford

(Amarilly Jenkins)William Scott

(Terry McGowen)Norman Kerry

(Gordon Phillips)Kate Price

(Mrs. Americus Jenkins)Ida Waterman

(Mrs. David Phillips)
And :
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Margaret Landis
Leo White
Tom Wilson
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