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Amarilly of clothes-line Alley (1918)

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Film details

Featuring

Mary Pickford William Scott Kate Price
Country

USA
Year

1918
Genre

Drama
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Drama. Amarilly lives in Clothesline Alley, an Irish area near San Francisco's Chinatown. She gets a job selling cigarettes in a local club which is where she meets socialite Gordon Phillips. Phillips falls in love with Amarilly but his aunt shows him that the working and the upper classes can never mix.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Amarilly Jenkins
    
    Mary Pickford
  - Terry McGowan
    
    William Scott
  - Mrs Americus Jenkins, Amarilly's mother
    
    Kate Price
  - Mrs David Phillips
    
    Ida Waterman
  - Gordon Phillips
    
    Norman Kerry
  - Johnny Walker
    
    Fred Goodwins
  - Colette King
    
    Margaret Landis
  - 'Snitch' McCarthy
    
    Tom Wilson
  - [Father Riordan]
    
    Herbert Standing
  - [Amarilly's brother]
    
    Wesley Barry
  - [Amarilly's brother]
    
    Frank Butterworth
  - [Amarilly's brother]
    
    Antrim Short
  - [Amarilly's brother]
    
    George Hackathorne
  - [.]
    
    Gertrude Short
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Supervised and Directed by
    
    Marshall Neilan
  - ©
    
    Mary Pickford Film Corporation
  - Presented by
    
    Artcraft Pictures Corporation
  - [Assistant Director]
    
    Nat Deverich
  - [Screenplay] By
    
    Frances Marion
  - From the book by
    
    Belle K. Maniates
  - Photographed by
    
    Walter Stradling
  - Art Director
    
    Wilfred Buckland

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