The Past of Mary Holmes (1933)

Mary Holmes MacKellar once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi now lives in a rundown 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