The Goose Woman
1925 film
- August 3, 1925 (1925-08-03) (New York City)
- December 27, 1925 (1925-12-27) (U.S.)
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The Goose Woman is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Louise Dresser with Jack Pickford as her son. The film was released by Universal Pictures.[1]
The Rex Beach short story is based in part on the then already sensational Hall-Mills murder case in which a woman named Jane Gibson is described as a pig woman because of the pigs she raised on her property.[1]
Plot
As described in a film magazine reviews,[2] opera singer Mary Holmes loses her voice as a result of giving birth to a boy, and develops an intense dislike of her offspring. She becomes a victim of drink, living alone in a shabby cottage and raises geese. Her son wins the love of Hazel Woods, a young actress, who repulsed the vicious advances of a millionaire theatre-owner. The latter is murdered. To gain publicity, Mary invents a wild story about having witnessed the murder. The district attorney furnishes her with fine clothes, reveals her identity as a former stage star, and she is the sensation of the day. However, the details she concocts about the crime cause her son’s arrest. Confronted with him, she experiences a sudden awakening of mother-love and confesses that her story is false. It transpires that the theatre doorman is the guilty person. The son is cleared and faces a happy future with his reformed parent and Hazel.
Cast
- Louise Dresser as Marie de Nardi / Mary Holmes
- Jack Pickford as Gerald Holmes
- Constance Bennett as Hazel Woods
- George Cooper as A Reporter
- Gustav von Seyffertitz as Mr. Vogel
- George Nichols as Detective Lopez
- Marc McDermott as Amos Ethridge
- Spottiswoode Aitken as Jacob Rigg
- James O. Barrows as Unidentified role
- Kate Price as Matron
Reception
Both critics and audiences favorably received the film.[citation needed] The Goose Woman was remade in 1933 as The Past of Mary Holmes featuring Helen MacKellar and Jean Arthur.[3]
References
- ^ a b Progressive Silent Film List: The Goose Woman at silentera.com
- ^ "New Pictures: The Goose Woman", Exhibitors Herald, 22 (11), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 54, September 5, 1925, retrieved September 1, 2022
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ^ "The Goose Woman (1925)". UCLA film archives. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Goose Woman.
- The Goose Woman at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- The Goose Woman is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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Films directed by Clarence Brown
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- The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
- The Foolish Matrons (1921)
- The Light in the Dark (1922)
- The Acquittal (1923)
- Don't Marry for Money (1923)
- The Signal Tower (1924)
- Butterfly (1924)
- The Eagle (1925)
- The Goose Woman (1925)
- Smouldering Fires (1925)
- Flesh and the Devil (1926)
- Kiki (1926)
- The Trail of '98 (1928)
- The Cossacks (1928)
- A Woman of Affairs (1928)
- Navy Blues (1929)
- Wonder of Women (1929)
- Anna Christie (1930)
- Romance (1930)
- Inspiration (1931)
- Possessed (1931)
- A Free Soul (1931)
- Emma (1932)
- Letty Lynton (1932)
- The Son-Daughter (1932)
- Looking Forward (1933)
- Night Flight (1933)
- Sadie McKee (1934)
- Chained (1934)
- Ah, Wilderness! (1935)
- Anna Karenina (1935)
- Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
- The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
- Conquest (1937)
- Of Human Hearts (1938)
- Idiot's Delight (1939)
- The Rains Came (1939)
- Edison, the Man (1940)
- Come Live with Me (1941)
- They Met in Bombay (1941)
- The Human Comedy (1943)
- The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
- National Velvet (1944)
- The Yearling (1946)
- Song of Love (1947)
- Intruder in the Dust (1949)
- To Please a Lady (1950)
- Angels in the Outfield (1951)
- When in Rome (1952)
- Plymouth Adventure (1952)
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