Rags to riches to rags romantic tale, but set in a laundry so at least the rags are clean.
Amanda (Mary Pickford) works in a rather rough laundry but has a romantic imagination. She spins a yarn to her fellow workers that her fiancé is Sir Horace (Albert Austin) who she met when he bought his shirt to the laundry (which is true he did) but his father objected to her and threw her out of their castle (which isn't true). She insists that one day Sir Horace will return for her. Meanwhile, Amanda saves a horse from the glue factory, this results in her becoming homeless but her kindness results in the horse being saved and being taken to live at a rich man's estate.
Horace finally returns to the laundry for his shirt, Amanda asks him to pretend they are a couple, spurning the love of laundry cart driver Ben (Harold Goodwin). Horace isn't too keen on her after all, leaving Amanda (and Ben) distraught. But is this the end of the romance?
A fun film with some interesting effects and film techniques. A decent story with some welcome whimsy.
