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Lena and the Geese (S)

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Original title

Lena and the Geese

Year

1912

Running time

24 min.

Country

United States

Director

D.W. Griffith

Screenwriter

Mary Pickford

Cast

Cinematography

G.W. Bitzer (B&W)

Producer

Biograph Company. Distributor: General Film Company

Genre

Romance. Drama | Short Film. Silent Film

Synopsis

For reasons of state, the first-born, a baby girl, is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a little child about the same age. The two children grow up as sisters. Later, upon her deathbed, the noble lady repents and sends for her child to reinstate her. Gretchen takes this opportunity to make a great lady of her own daughter Lena, the goose girl, by sending her to court instead of the real heiress. Hence Lena is taken before the noble lady as she breathes her last, happy in the belief that she has made reparation. Lena is now a great lady, but the title is a great misfit; court etiquette with her is hard work. She longs to be back with Gretchen and her "geeses." She endures it as long as she can and then bolts. Gretchen, by this time, is sorry for her deception, and is only too eager to straighten the affair.

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Lena and the Geese (S)

1912

D.W. Griffith