Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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 wa...
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Complete Filmography
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004
as Self (archive footage)
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film bo...

Mardi Gras
1958
Director
A military school cadet romances a visiting French actress during Mardi Gras. With songs, kissing and New Orleans locations.

Teenage Rebel
1956
Writer, Director
Nancy Fallon gets her teenage daughter back from her ex-husband when she remarries and must win her love.

Down Among the Sheltering Palms
1953
Director
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.

We're Not Married!
1952
Director
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally m...

Mister 880
1950
Director
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has ama...

Everybody Does It
1949
Director
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to...

Nightmare Alley
1947
Director
Roustabout Stanton Carlisle joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoho...

The Razor's Edge
1946
Director
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at...

Of Human Bondage
1946
Director
A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help...
Flight from Folly
1945
Story
An out of work show girl poses as a nurse and undertakes the job of looking after Clinton Clay, a composer and playboy, jilted by his Russian wife. Sh...

Breakdowns of 1944
1944
as Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1944.

Claudia
1943
Director
Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afra...

The Constant Nymph
1943
as Himself, Trailer Host & Narrator
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own...

The Constant Nymph
1943
Director
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own...

Forever and a Day
1943
Director
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, ...

Breakdowns of 1942
1942
as Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.

The Great Lie
1941
Director
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.

'Til We Meet Again
1940
Director
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. J...

Two Girls on Broadway
1940
Story
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney wh...

We Are Not Alone
1939
Director
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.

The Old Maid
1939
Director
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.

Dark Victory
1939
Director
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love w...

Breakdowns of 1938
1938
as Goulding (archive footage) (uncredited)
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

The Dawn Patrol
1938
Director
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty r...

White Banners
1938
Director
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook ...

That Certain Woman
1937
Director, Screenplay
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.

The Flame Within
1935
Director, Writer, Producer
Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.

Hollywood Party
1934
Director
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real ...

Riptide
1934
Screenplay, Director
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer...

No Man of Her Own
1932
Story
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.

Flesh
1932
Story
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

Blondie of the Follies
1932
Director
New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the ...

Grand Hotel
1932
Director
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

The Night Angel
1931
Director, Writer
In this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe. He sends the owner's daughter to a nurse's home until...

A woman's tomorrow
1931
Writer
A smart young manicurist works in a hotel where she earns big money by tricking businessmen by persuading them to do certain deals where she has a com...
La fiesta del diablo
1931
Story
A savvy city girl is hired to sugar an earnest farm boy into a business deal, but loses her heart. Spanish language version of the 1930 Nancy Carroll ...

Sunday of Life
1931
Writer
Ellen Hobart is a gold-digging manicurist who sights her sights on David Stone, a wealthy young man. After they marry, Hobart is persuaded to accept $...

Reaching for the Moon
1930
Director, Writer
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced wi...

Hell's Angels
1930
Co-Director
When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.

The Devil's Holiday
1930
Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men, Hallie...

Paramount on Parade
1930
Director
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

The Grand Parade
1930
Writer
No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the s...

The Trespasser
1929
Director, Writer, Producer
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives ...

The Broadway Melody
1929
Writer
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfie...

A Lady of Chance
1928
Writer
A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.

Happiness Ahead
1928
Writer
Happiness Ahead is a persumed lost 1928 silent film drama directed by William A. Seiter and starring Colleen Moore and then husband and wife Edmund Lo...

A Certain Young Man
1928
Director
An aristocratic English womanizer is forced to take a fishing trip to avoid the husbands of his conquests, meets a young American lady on the train, a...

Love
1927
Director, Producer
In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become his mistr...

Women Love Diamonds
1927
Director, Story
A young woman can't marry a millionaire because she was born illegitimately.

Paris
1926
Director, Writer
The power of love in the violent underground world of the Apaches in Paris in the early 20th century.

Sally, Irene and Mary
1925
Writer, Director
The three are showgirls, each with a different approach to life and love.

The Beautiful City
1925
Story
For their mother's sake, a man takes the blame for a robbery committed by his brother and his brother's gangster boss. Considered a lost film.

Havoc
1925
Writer
A war drama produced only 7 years after the end of World War I. Based on the play by Henry Wallace it chronicles two Englishmen, Dick Chappell (George...

Sun-Up
1925
Adaptation, Director
When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a deserter as a protest.When the boy returns she asks him to k...

1925 Studio Tour
1925
as Self
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.

The Dancers
1925
Writer
Young Tony, unable to make a living in crowded and fast-paced London, goes to South America in search of his fortune. He soon becomes the owner of a s...

Dante's Inferno
1924
Screenplay
The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to commit suicide. The businessman is tried for murder and exe...

The Man Who Came Back
1924
Screenplay
Henry Potter is the irresponsible playboy son of a New York millionaire. Fearing he will disgrace the family name if he stays in New York, the father ...

Tiger Rose
1923
Writer
Originally a Broadway play by Willard Macks, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and reprises her role for this film. At the Wutchi Wum trading p...

Bright Lights of Broadway
1923
Writer
An innocent country girl who happens to have a lovely singing voice falls under the influence of a ruthless Broadway producer. At first she's dazzled ...

The Bright Shawl
1923
Writer
Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.

Jazzmania
1923
Screenplay
The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her government.
Dark Secrets
1923
Screenplay
Ruth Rutherford, crippled as a result of being thrown from a horse, breaks her engagement to Lord Wallington. Dejected, he returns to his regiment in ...

Fury
1923
Story, Screenplay
Boy Leyton is second mate on board the Lady Spray, the ship on which his father is Captain Leyton. Boy is often chided by his father for his effeminac...

Heroes of the Street
1922
Writer
When a smart-alec street kid's father, a policeman, is killed in the line of duty, the boy turns over a new leaf and goes to work to support his mothe...

Till We Meet Again
1922
Writer
Swindler Arthur Montrose has tricked Marion Bates into getting committed to an insane asylum, after cheating her and her friends out of all of their m...

Broadway Rose
1922
Screenplay, Story
Rosalie Lawrence, a dancing star on Broadway, falls for rich Hugh Thompson. His parents disapprove and want him to marry Barbara Royce, so he and Rosa...

Fascination
1922
Story, Screenplay
A young woman with a Spanish father and an American mother living in Spain under the supervision of a strict aunt slips out to attend a bullfight. The...

The Seventh Day
1922
Writer
A group of New York society folk on a yachting excursion are forced to put into a New England fishing village for repairs. The engaged couple Reggie a...

Peacock Alley
1922
Writer
A young man brings his new worldly Parisian wife back home to Pennsylvania.

Three Live Ghosts
1922
as Jimmy Gubbins
Adapted from a popular Broadway play and concerns three veterans who return to London from the War only to discover that they have been officially lis...

Tol'able David
1921
Writer
Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mail carrier for t...

A Man of Stone
1921
Writer
Capt. Deering, a British war hero whose exploits in the Arabian desert have earned him the nickname "The Man of Stone", returns home to London to disc...

The Devil
1921
Screenplay
Dr. Muller, a friend to all, finds pleasure in turning the goodness in people to evil ends. He meets Marie Matin and her fiancée, Georges Roben, while...

A Daughter of Two Worlds
1920
Writer

Sealed Hearts
1919
Writer
Frank Prentiss, a multi-millionaire who hates and distrusts women, convinces his adopted son, Jack, that they are detrimental to a man's success. The ...

The Glorious Lady
1919
Story
During an annual celebration in which English peasants and aristocrats mingle, the Duke of Loame is thrown from his horse and saved by Ivis Benson, th...

The Perfect Lover
1919
Writer
Brian Lazar returns to his shabby dwelling after pawning a valuable ring. A woman, accompanied by a detective, accuses him of being a thief, but, befo...
The Imp
1919
Writer
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1916
Dorian Gray, a young man who makes a pact with his portrait, allowing it to age and bear the signs of his sins while he remains eternally youthful and...