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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.
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
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.
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Based on a Rex Beach story (itself inspired by a real-life murder trial), The Goose Woman stars future Best Actress Academy Award nominee Louise Dresser as Mary Holmes, a former opera star known as Marie de Nardi. Once the toast of Paris, Mary is now a drunken slattern, living in an old farmhouse where she raises geese.
- Danny Fortune
Synopsis. 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.
Overview. 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. Clarence Brown. Director.
