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The Past of Mary Holmes(1933)
Status: Released
Date: 1933-01-20
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A DRAMA OF YOUNG LOVE...SMOTHERED BY A MOTHER'S LOVE!
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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.
Languages: English.
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Top 10 Billed Cast
Helen MacKellar
Mary Holmes
Eric Linden
Geoffrey Holmes
Jean Arthur
Joan Hoyt
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Ben Pratt
Ivan F. Simpson
Jacob Riggs
Clay Clement
G.K. Ethridge
J. Carrol Naish
Gary Kent
Roscoe Ates
Bill-poster Klondike
Rochelle Hudson
Betty
John Sheehan
Tom Kincaid
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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.
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1933-01-20
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A DRAMA OF YOUNG LOVE...SMOTHERED BY A MOTHER'S LOVE!
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