SUDS (1920) DVD - MARY PICKFORD, ALBERT AUSTIN, HAROLD GOODWIN, ROSE DIONE

Description: Mary Pickford plays a downtrodden washerwoman waiting for her prince to come in this charming silent comedy....... SUDS (1920) Amanda Afflick (Mary Pickford) is a poor laundry woman working in London. She is too weak to do the hard work, but is always picked on and humiliated by her boss Madame Didier (Rose Dione). Amanda is desperately in love with the handsome customer Horace Greensmith (Albert Austin), but none of her colleagues thinks she has a chance of being his sweetheart.One afternoon Amanda gets in trouble again and is forced to work all night long. All alone, she fantasizes about her first and only meeting with Horace, eight months ago. All the fellow employees ridicule her for still having faith that he will return someday to pick up his clothes. Amanda is fed up with all her colleagues making fun of her and lies that she is a duchess, coming from a wealthy family. She comes up with a story of her having an affair with Horace. Her father found out and sent her to live in London.Meanwhile, co-worker Benjamin Jones (Harold Goodwin) has the job of collecting laundry with his cart. One day, his beloved horse Lavender is too weak to go up a hill and falls. The cart is destroyed and when Benjamin admits the truth to Madame Didier, she asks for the horse to be killed. Benjamin reveals to Amanda what will happen with Lavender and she tries to stop the horse from being killed. She eventually buys the horse and takes it into her own home.Amanda is not allowed to take the horse into her own apartment and is noticed on the streets by the wealthy and sympathizing Lady Burke-Cavendish. She offers to take the horse to live at her country place. Amanda is delighted and accepts her offer. Later, Lady Burke-Cavendish stops by to tell Amanda the horse is doing very well. Amanda lies to the fellow laundry women Lady Burke-Cavendish is actually her aunt.They are interrupted by Horace: he has returned for his laundry. The fellow workers assume he will recognize Amanda, since they were lied to he is her secret lover. Amanda is desperate and successfully pretends to be reunited with him. Horace is confused and wants to leave. While the laundry women are away she tells the truth to Horace. Benjamin walks in on them, initially trying to flirt with Amanda, but when he notices Horace's presence he leaves.Horace sympathizes with Amanda and invites her to his mansion. He changes his mind when he becomes ashamed of her. Amanda notices this and pulls back. Horace leaves and Amanda is left behind with a broken heart. She is later hired as Lady Burke-Cavendish's personal maid and now lives in wealth. She finds out Horace is a worker at the country place and they fall in love with each other. Mary Pickford plays Amanda Afflick, a downtrodden laundress wrapped up in dreams of romance. She tells her co-workers that any day now, her wealthy fiancé Sir Horace will arrive to rescue her from a life of drudgery. In reality, Horace is simply a man who dropped off a shirt eight months ago and never picked it up. Amanda is so caught up in this fantasy that she is oblivious to coachman Ben Pillsbury's romantic feelings for her. When Horace unexpectedly walks in looking for his shirt, Amanda begs him to pretend to be her fiancé to spare her the humiliation. It's at that moment that Ben decides to finally make his feelings for Amanda known. All of a sudden, the homely girl has two suitors to choose from... Suds is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Mary Pickford. The film is based on the 1904 English stage play 'Op o' Me Thumb, a one-act work first produced in London and presented the following year in New York with Maude Adams, a curtain raiser for her appearance in Peter Pan. Encouraged by the success of Stella Maris (1918), in which she'd spent half the film playing an unglamorous girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Mary Pickford was determined to move even farther away from her "America's Sweetheart" image with Suds. Except for a brief fantasy sequence, Mary never appears as the pigtailed, childlike waif that moviegoers had grown accustomed to. Instead she plays a hardened woman ensconced in a life of drudgery, her only relief escaping into a world of fantasy. It's ironic then that this was the film Mary was making when she married the "King of Hollywood", Douglas Fairbanks. Suds is adapted from an English stage play called 'Op o' Me Thumb written by Richard Bryce and Frederick Fenn. Harold Goodwin, who plays Ben Pillsbury, later portrayed the tragic soldier Detering in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). There are several features of this movie that make it interesting and different from the usual Mary Pickford film. For a start, Mary's role in "Suds" is far removed from the sweet little girl with long golden curls' image she has become most famous for, and anyone not so keen on films in which she plays a child-like young girl might find "Suds" more entertaining. Another change from the usual and popular image is the setting: a poor, working-class district of London at the turn of the century where women slave in steaming basement laundries day in and day out, leading one of them (Mary) to escape this drudgery by daydreaming about a certain gentleman customer. The sets, photography and well-suited musical score combine to express the mood very well, and some charming moments of comedy prevent the picture becoming too gloomy and depressing. But perhaps most striking about "Suds" is how `America's Sweetheart' manages to distort her face and appear more like a very average-looking, unhappy working woman; even her walk and stooped stance adds to this sad character, so in this respect "Suds" allows Pickford to express other facets of her acting talents and gives audiences a bit of a change. Suds is a very good Mary Pickford vehicle that showcases Mary's excellent acting skills combined with some Chaplinesque features including a lot more slapstick than you usually would find in a Mary Pickford film. This is one of my favorite Mary Pickford flickers!! I just LOVE IT!! Overall, Suds is a fantastic Mary Pickford vehicle that aims to please fans of "America's Sweetheart". Her acting is wonderful (per usual!) and she truly breaks your heart in her role; she's THAT good as Amanda Afflick. I highly recommend this film for Mary Pickford fans and silent movie aficionados. HAPPY MARY PICKFORD VIEWING NIGHT!!!!! This DVD is BRAND NEW...NEVER OPENED....STILL SEALED!!!! Will COMBINE shipping!! Will be shipped VERY SECURELY!!!! PAYMENT THRU PAYPAL THANKS FOR LOOKING!!!!!!! "Mary Pickford...The best known woman who has ever lived, the woman who was known to more people and loved by more people than any other woman that has been in all history." -Adela Rogers St. Johns, 1981

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