A London laundress attempts to rise above her station in order to capture the love of a wealthy young man, thus missing out on the truer love of one of her own class.A London laundress attempts to rise above her station in order to capture the love of a wealthy young man, thus missing out on the truer love of one of her own class.A London laundress attempts to rise above her station in order to capture the love of a wealthy young man, thus missing out on the truer love of one of her own class.
Rose Dione
- Madame Jeanne Gallifilet Didier
- (as Rosa Dione)
Lavender the Horse
- Ex polo pony
- (as Lavendor the Horse)
Taylor N. Duncan
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Joan Marsh
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Nadyne Montgomery
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Theodore Roberts
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Hal Wilson
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
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- Writers
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- TriviaContemporary sources state that the harsh conclusion generated such widespread criticism that a second, happy ending was filmed in which Amanda lives happily on Lady Burke's estate with Lavender and Ben.
- Quotes
Title card: Imagination is God's greatest gift... Even a hungry flea on a toy dog may be happy - with imagination!
- Alternate versionsAfter audiences complained about the original, unhappy ending, the studio filmed two happy endings, one for the American release and another for foreign audiences. Both are contained on the 2005 DVD.
- ConnectionsEdited into American Experience: Mary Pickford (2005)
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An Ugly Mary still an enjoyable Mary
Mary Pickford abandons the cute visage of her curls and good looks and sweetness and adopts a severe ugly looking visage (aka Stella Maris) and remains fascinating. It is actually hard to recognize the woman as Mary Pickford. But it goes to show you are still fascinated with the girl even when she is looking ugly.
This was necessarily a fun movie with lots of gags and loonie moments - such as giving the horse the Pickford hair curls, spending a night with a horse some good slap-stick. Lots of banter with her work mates.
But as usual there are a number of Pickford moments in this movie. There was a momentary change in feeling when we see Mary realize her hoped for suitor is embarrassed by the way she looks dressed up in her best rags and the dialog that follows in that scene. And the rags Mary has to wear are really really rag rags - hard to imagine rags so bad.
In fact though this was a comedy they really did go to some effort to create the depressing dank and poor setting of a London laundry. It was oppressive but essential to the comedy.
The end came upon us suddenly and lacked development though of course it would have been predictable and could written itself but, it would have been nice to have gone through the process for the sake of feeling complete. I wonder if they had time pressures, or if they had just finished a reel and didn't want it flow over into part of another reel.
Despite the minor ending deficiency this was a very enjoyable movie and especially so because Mary didn't look like Mary.
This was necessarily a fun movie with lots of gags and loonie moments - such as giving the horse the Pickford hair curls, spending a night with a horse some good slap-stick. Lots of banter with her work mates.
But as usual there are a number of Pickford moments in this movie. There was a momentary change in feeling when we see Mary realize her hoped for suitor is embarrassed by the way she looks dressed up in her best rags and the dialog that follows in that scene. And the rags Mary has to wear are really really rag rags - hard to imagine rags so bad.
In fact though this was a comedy they really did go to some effort to create the depressing dank and poor setting of a London laundry. It was oppressive but essential to the comedy.
The end came upon us suddenly and lacked development though of course it would have been predictable and could written itself but, it would have been nice to have gone through the process for the sake of feeling complete. I wonder if they had time pressures, or if they had just finished a reel and didn't want it flow over into part of another reel.
Despite the minor ending deficiency this was a very enjoyable movie and especially so because Mary didn't look like Mary.
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- adt125
- Aug 20, 2008
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $772,155
- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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