The Golden Cocoon is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Millard Webb and written by Louis D. Lighton, and Hope Loring.

The film stars Huntley Gordon, Helene Chadwick, Richard Tucker, Frank Campeau, Margaret Seddon, and Carrie Clark Ward.

[1][2][3] As described in a review in a film magazine,[4] Molly Shannon (Chadwick), an innocent country girl who wins a university scholarship offered by Gregory Cochran (Gordon), a wealthy judge.

As she emerges she is seen by Bancroft (Campeau), a grafting politician who later seeks to use this knowledge to force from the race the judge whom she has since married.

The wife disappears, feigning suicide, which is her clever ruse to keep her story out of the paper (at the time, ethic standards at most newspapers prevented publication of any slander against a dead person).