The Goose Woman
Theatrical release poster
Directed byClarence Brown
Written byRex Beach (story)
Melville W. Brown (scenario)
Frederica Sagor (uncredited scenario)
Dwinelle Benthall (intertitles)
Produced byUniversal Pictures
StarringLouise Dresser
Jack Pickford
Constance Bennett
CinematographyMilton Moore
Edited byRay Curtiss
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • August 3, 1925 (1925-08-03) (New York City)
  • December 27, 1925 (1925-12-27) (U.S.)
Running time
8 reels at 2,286 feet
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

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

Reception

Both critics and audiences favorably received the film. The Goose Woman was remade in 1933 as The Past of Mary Holmes featuring Helen MacKellar and Jean Arthur.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Progressive Silent Film List: The Goose Woman at silentera.com
  2. ↑ "New Pictures: The Goose Woman", Exhibitors Herald, Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company, 22 (11): 54, September 5, 1925, retrieved September 1, 2022 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ↑ "The Goose Woman (1925)". UCLA film archives. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
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