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English: Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman was an executive with the International Film Co., a property of William Randolph Hearst. There is some evidence that Goodman was an intimate of Hearst and was able to be of service to the great man on more than one occasion.

As the following brief biography mentions, Goodman was involved in at least three well-known tragedies in the early decades of the 20th Century. His involvement with the death of Florence LaBadie, an accident by all accounts, was probably due to reckless drinking. He was the Hearst employee charged with covering up the circumstances of Thomas Ince's death on the Oneida in 1924, a job which he did with amazing effectiveness seeing as the facts are still unclear today. He was also married to lovely, vulnerable and drug-addicted Alma Rubens the year after they traveled together on this location shoot for Enemies of Women in 1922. Given his credentials as a physician, I have to wonder (with no evidence, I have to say) if one of Goodman's jobs was to provide drugs to the film industry.

It is interesting to note that Alma Ruben's and Dr Goodman's mothers also traveled with the film cast and crew. I imagine that given the youthful composition of the company, these two middle-aged women might found companionship with each other. I can also believe that the idea of marriage between the children might have been dreamed up by the mothers.