The Goose Girl (1915 film)

The Goose Girl
The Goose Girl
	Poster
Directed by	Frederick A. Thomson
Written by	William C. deMille (scenario)
Based on	The Goose Girl; by Harold McGrath
Produced by	Jesse Lasky
Starring	Marguerite Clark; Monroe Salisbury
Cinematography	Percy Hilburn (French)
Production; company	Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	January 25, 1915;
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent; English intertitles

The Goose Girl is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Frederick A. Thomson and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on the 1909 novel of the same name by Harold McGrath loosley based on the fairy tale of the same name and starred Marguerite Clark and Monroe Salisbury.

Cast[edit]

Marguerite Clark - Gretchen
Monroe Salisbury - King Frederick
Sydney Deane - Prince Regent of Jugendheit
E. N. Dunbar - Grand Duke of Ehrenstein
James Neill - Count Von Herbeck
Lawrence Peyton - Von Wallenstein
Page Peters - Carmichael (as P.E. Peters)
H. B. Carpenter - Torpete The Gypsy
Ernest Joy - Hans
J. M. Casidy - Gottfried
Miss Johnson - Princess Hildegarde
Jane Darwell - Irma

Plot[edit]

Count Von Herbeck (Neill), an ambitious chancellor to the Grand Duke of Ehrenstein (Dunbar), secretly marries and has a daughter. At the urging of his dying wife, the count kidnaps the duke's infant daughter (Clark) and substitutes his own in the castle so that she may live in the style of a great lady.

The real princess, abandoned by the gypsies who abducted her for the count, is raised by peasants and given the name "Goose Girl." The young King Frederick (Salisbury) is betrothed to the impostor princess of Ehrenstein, whom he has never seen, but before the wedding takes place, he runs away and roams the countryside, where he encounters and falls in love with the Goose Girl.

After a series of adventures, during which Frederick decides to wed the false princess for the good of the country, the Goose Girl's true identity is revealed, and Frederick is delighted to learn that he is now betrothed to the girl of his heart.