Edmund Goulding
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 Goulding helping position two actors for a kiss while making a film with the motion picture class at Columbia University in 1927. |
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| Born | Edmund Goulding 20 March 1891 Feltham, Middlesex, England |
| Died | December 24, 1959 (aged 68) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Director, Writer |
| Years active | 1925 - 1958 |
| Spouse(s) | Marjorie Moss (1931-1935) (deceased) |
Edmund Goulding (20 March 1891 - 24 December 1959) was a British film writer and director. Goulding is best remembered for directing cultured dramas and such as Grand Hotel (1932) with Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, Dark Victory (1939) with Bette Davis, and The Razor's Edge (1946) with Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power. He also directed the classic film noir Nightmare Alley (1947) with Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell, and the action drama The Dawn Patrol. He was also a successful songwriter, composer, and producer.
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[edit] Biography
Before moving to films, Goulding was an actor, playwright and director on the London stage.
His biographer, Matthew Kennedy, stated:
He not only directed many types of films, but he took on multiple functions on each set. Though he didn’t usually take credit, he co-wrote many scripts, composed incidental music, produced, even consulted on makeup, costumes, and hair styling. His one blind spot in production seems to be the camera...When shooting a scene, Eddie was intent on capturing performers at their best and most truthful, but he left the mechanics of filming to his cameramen...he seemed adept at just about everything — comedy (Everybody Does It, We’re Not Married!), ensemble dramas (Grand Hotel), family relations (White Banners, Claudia), war (The Dawn Patrol, We Are Not Alone), psychiatry (The Flame Within), show business (Blondie of the Follies), male-female relationships (The Devil's Holiday, Riptide), and even existentialism (The Razor's Edge) and the dark arts of spiritism (Nightmare Alley).[1]
Although bi-sexual with homosexual erotic tendencies, Goulding was married to British dancer Marjorie Moss from 1931 until her death in 1935.[citation needed] Kennedy's 2004 biography of Goulding, Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory: Hollywood’s Genius Bad Boy, affirms that it was widely known in Hollywood that Goulding was bisexual, arranged orgies for all persuasions, and that between 1932 and 1935 he was exiled to England by MGM while Louis B. Mayer covered up a sex scandal involving the hospitalization of two women following one of his orgies.[citation needed]
He died during heart surgery at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, California.
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[edit] References
- ^ "Edmund Goulding Q&A with Biographer Matthew Kennedy". Alternative Film Guide. http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/edmund-goulding-matthew-kennedy/. Retrieved 2 Apr 2009.
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