Suds

John Francis Dillon, Mary Pickford Company / United Artists, 1920, from the play 'Op o' Me Thumb. Pickford as Amanda Afflick, a London laundry drudge with a horse named Lavender and a bus driver who will not look at her. Silent, about seventy-five minutes. Pickford without curls, in soap and steam. Dillon letting the laundry be the world: vats, gossip, a rich customer, a fantasy that cannot survive a second look.