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Running time. 8 reels at 2,286 feet. Country. United States. Language. Silent (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 Goose Woman: Directed by Clarence Brown. With Jack Pickford, Louise Dresser, Constance Bennett, Marc McDermott. A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Clarence Brown
- 1925-12-27
The Goose Woman was remade in 1933 as (the currently hard-to-find) The Past of Mary Holmes, starring Helen McKellar, Eric Linden, and Jean Arthur. Harlan Thompson and Slavko Vorkapich directed from a screenplay by Marion Dix and Edward Doherty. Jack Pickford and Louise Dresser The Goose Woman (1925) image: San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
- Danny Fortune
Rex Beach loosely based his short story “The Goose Woman” on the gruesome 1922 Hall-Mills double murder of a New Jersey Episcopal priest and a woman rumored to be his mistress. The suspects were his rich widow and her two brothers. All these details, however, were absent from Beach’s story.
Based on the short story by Rex Beach, the plot of The Goose Woman would have resonated with audiences of the mid-1920s by dramatizing a key component of the notorious 1922 Hall-Mills murder case—namely, a witness nicknamed “the Pig Woman” who gave unreliable testimony during the investigation in an attempt to solicit media attention.
A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a story in order to get herself back in front of the public again. However, the story she comes up with results in her son being arrested for the murder.
