Edmund Goulding

Edmund Goulding was born on Mar 20, 1891 in UK. Edmund Goulding's big-screen debut came with The Silent Partner directed by Marshall Neilan in 1917. Edmund Goulding is known for Nightmare Alley directed by Edmund Goulding, Tyrone Power stars as Stanton Carlisle and Joan Blondell as Zeena Krumbein. The upcoming new movie Edmund Goulding plays is Mardi Gras which will be released on Nov 18, 1958.

London-born Edmund Goulding was an actor/playwright/director on the London stage, and entered the British army when WWI broke out. Mustered out of the service because of wounds suffered in battle, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1921. He obtained assignments as a screenwriter in Hollywood, wrote a novel, "Fury," in 1922 and directed the film version of it (Le vengeur (1923)). Hired as a screenwriter/director by MGM in 1925, Goulding quickly developed a reputation for turning out tasteful, cultured dramas and drawing-room comedies. His films typified the elegance and refinement with which MGM was identified, the best example of this being Grand Hôtel (1932). He was entrusted with the pictures of some of MGM's biggest stars, such as Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford. However, one of his best-known films, and probably the one most atypical of his work, was Le Charlatan (1947), a dark, brooding drama of greed and corruption among high and low society involving phony mentalists and a conniving psychiatrist.