The Goose Woman

The Goose Woman
The Goose Woman
	2008 DVD cover
Directed by	Clarence Brown
Written by	Rex Beach (story); Melville W. Brown (scenario); Frederica Sagor (uncredited scenario); Dwinelle Benthall (intertitles)
Produced by	Universal Pictures
Starring	Louise Dresser; Jack Pickford; Constance Bennett
Cinematography	Milton Moore
Edited by	Ray Curtiss
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	August 3, 1925 (New York City); December 27, 1925 (U.S.);
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 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]

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.^[2]

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

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Progressive Silent Film List: The Goose Woman at silentera.com
^ "The Goose Woman (1925)". UCLA film archives. Retrieved August 23, 2011.

External links[]

The Goose Woman at IMDb
Synopsis at AllMovie

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[SE-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Progressive Silent Film List: The Goose Woman at silentera.com

[2] "The Goose Woman (1925)". UCLA film archives. Retrieved August 23, 2011.

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