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The Past of Mary Holmes is a american film of genre Drama directed by Slavko Vorkapić released in USA on 20 january 1933 with Eric Linden

The Past of Mary Holmes (1933)

The Past of Mary Holmes
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Released in USA 20 january 1933
Length 1h10
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating64% 3.225843.225843.225843.225843.22584

The Past of Mary Holmes is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film, directed by Slavko Vorkapich and Harlan Thompson, and released by RKO. The film is a remake of the silent film The Goose Woman (1925), which is based on a short story by Rex Beach, partly based on the Hall-Mills murder case.

Synopsis

Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her eccentric behavior, Mary breeds geese, and is thus known in her neighborhood as 'The Goose Woman'. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey, who works as a commercial artist, announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she becomes torn with jealousy and threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth. Not allowing his mother the satisfaction of destroying his life, Geoffrey decides to break the news to Joan himself. Joan, who has just ended an affair with a womanizing theatre backer, G. K. Ethridge (Clement), calmly accepts his news and tells him that she wants to proceed their wedding plans. Geoffrey then breaks ties with his mother and heads out to Chicago, on an assignment.

Actors

Eric Linden

(Geoffrey Holmes)Jean Arthur

(Joan Hoyt)Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

(Ben Pratt)Clay Clement

(G. K. Ethridge)J. Carrol Naish

(Gary Kent)
And :
Ivan F. Simpson
Franklin Parker
Roscoe Ates
Rochelle Hudson
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