Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
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...
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"Mary Pickford claimed Marshall Neilan was the best director she had ever worked with, better than even the legendary D. W. Griffith. The two worked in five straight films, all hits, beginning with late 1917's "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." Their fourth film together, March 1918's "Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley," was Pickford tackling another dual role, this time as a poor woman who becomes romantically linked with a rich man. Her uneasiness of being elevated to the upper strata is shown visually by director Neilan in such scenes where he frames her several times i..."
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Tom Wilson's part was originally supposed to be played by Eric Campbell, who had played the "heavy" with Charles Chaplin the previous two years. Campbell was killed in an auto accident on December 28, 1917, a week prior to the start of this film's production. Wilson would play a uniformed policeman in Chaplin's The Kid (1921).
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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...