Edmund Goulding

Edmund Goulding

1891-03-20 Feltham, Middlesex, England, UK 81 Credits

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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Checking Out: Grand Hotel

2004

as Self (archive footage)

7.0
Acting

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

Mardi Gras

1958

Director

5.6
Directing

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

Teenage Rebel

Teenage Rebel

1956

Writer, Director

6.5
Writing Directing

Nancy Fallon gets her teenage daughter back from her ex-husband when she remarries and must win her love.

Down Among the Sheltering Palms

Down Among the Sheltering Palms

1953

Director

5.0
Directing

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!

We're Not Married!

1952

Director

5.9
Directing

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

Mister 880

1950

Director

6.9
Directing

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

Everybody Does It

1949

Director

7.8
Directing

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

Nightmare Alley

1947

Director

7.1
Directing

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

The Razor's Edge

1946

Director

6.9
Directing

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

Of Human Bondage

1946

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Writing

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

Breakdowns of 1944

1944

as Self

6.5
Acting

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

Claudia

Claudia

1943

Director

6.5
Directing

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

The Constant Nymph

1943

as Himself, Trailer Host & Narrator

6.0
Acting

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

The Constant Nymph

1943

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Forever and a Day

1943

Director

7.4
Directing

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

Breakdowns of 1942

1942

as Self

6.0
Acting

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

The Great Lie

The Great Lie

1941

Director

6.8
Directing

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

'Til We Meet Again

1940

Director

6.2
Directing

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

Two Girls on Broadway

1940

Story

6.6
Writing

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

We Are Not Alone

1939

Director

6.1
Directing

A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.

The Old Maid

The Old Maid

1939

Director

7.1
Directing

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

Dark Victory

Dark Victory

1939

Director

7.0
Directing

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

Breakdowns of 1938

1938

as Goulding (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.0
Acting

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

The Dawn Patrol

The Dawn Patrol

1938

Director

6.8
Directing

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

White Banners

1938

Director

5.8
Directing

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

That Certain Woman

1937

Director, Screenplay

5.7
Directing Writing

A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.

The Flame Within

The Flame Within

1935

Director, Writer, Producer

5.2
Directing Writing Producing

Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.

Hollywood Party

Hollywood Party

1934

Director

5.8
Directing

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

Riptide

1934

Screenplay, Director

6.2
Writing Directing

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

No Man of Her Own

1932

Story

6.5
Writing

An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.

Flesh

Flesh

1932

Story

5.6
Writing

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

Blondie of the Follies

1932

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Grand Hotel

1932

Director

6.9
Directing

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

The Night Angel

The Night Angel

1931

Director, Writer

4.0
Directing Writing

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

A woman's tomorrow

1931

Writer

Writing

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

Writing

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

Sunday of Life

1931

Writer

Writing

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

Reaching for the Moon

1930

Director, Writer

5.4
Directing Writing

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

Hell's Angels

1930

Co-Director

6.5
Directing

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

The Devil's Holiday

1930

Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer

6.3
Directing Writing

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

Paramount on Parade

1930

Director

6.1
Directing

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

The Grand Parade

The Grand Parade

1930

Writer

Writing

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

The Trespasser

1929

Director, Writer, Producer

6.6
Directing Writing Producing

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

The Broadway Melody

1929

Writer

5.2
Writing

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

A Lady of Chance

1928

Writer

6.5
Writing

A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.

Happiness Ahead

Happiness Ahead

1928

Writer

Writing

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

A Certain Young Man

1928

Director

Directing

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

Love

1927

Director, Producer

5.8
Directing Producing

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

Women Love Diamonds

1927

Director, Story

Directing Writing

A young woman can't marry a millionaire because she was born illegitimately.

Paris

Paris

1926

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

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

Sally, Irene and Mary

Sally, Irene and Mary

1925

Writer, Director

5.5
Writing Directing

The three are showgirls, each with a different approach to life and love.

The Beautiful City

The Beautiful City

1925

Story

Writing

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

Havoc

1925

Writer

Writing

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

Sun-Up

1925

Adaptation, Director

Directing

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 Studio Tour

1925

as Self

6.1
Acting

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

The Dancers

1925

Writer

5.0
Writing

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

Dante's Inferno

1924

Screenplay

4.3
Writing

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

The Man Who Came Back

1924

Screenplay

Writing

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

Tiger Rose

1923

Writer

4.5
Writing

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

Bright Lights of Broadway

1923

Writer

Writing

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

The Bright Shawl

1923

Writer

Writing

Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.

Jazzmania

Jazzmania

1923

Screenplay

Writing

The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her government.

Dark Secrets

1923

Screenplay

Writing

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

Fury

1923

Story, Screenplay

9.0
Writing

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

Heroes of the Street

1922

Writer

Writing

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

Till We Meet Again

1922

Writer

Writing

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

Broadway Rose

1922

Screenplay, Story

Writing

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

Fascination

1922

Story, Screenplay

Writing

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

The Seventh Day

1922

Writer

6.2
Writing

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

Peacock Alley

1922

Writer

Writing

A young man brings his new worldly Parisian wife back home to Pennsylvania.

Three Live Ghosts

Three Live Ghosts

1922

as Jimmy Gubbins

6.0
Acting

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

Tol'able David

1921

Writer

6.9
Writing

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

A Man of Stone

1921

Writer

Writing

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

The Devil

1921

Screenplay

6.1
Writing

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

A Daughter of Two Worlds

1920

Writer

Writing
Sealed Hearts

Sealed Hearts

1919

Writer

Writing

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

The Glorious Lady

1919

Story

6.0
Writing

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

The Perfect Lover

1919

Writer

Writing

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

Writing

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1916

6.0
Acting

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...