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Lena and the Geese

4.2 20 mins Drama   Comedy   Family   History   1912
American Mutoscope & Biograph  
Director(s): D.W. Griffith

A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a 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, happy in the belief that she has made reparation. Lena is now a great lady, but the title does not fit well-- She longs to be back with Gretchen and her "geeses".

Casts of Lena and the Geese

Mary Pickford

as Lena

J. Jiquel Lanoe

as Lena's Sweetheart (as Jacque Lenor)

Kate Bruce

as Gretchen

Mae Marsh

as The 'Adopted' Daughter

Edwin August

as Lena's Father

Claire McDowell

as Lena's Mother

W. Chrystie Miller

as Courtier

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