Research Catalog

Title

Edmund Goulding's dark victory : Hollywood's genius bad boy / Matthew Kennedy ; foreword by Kevin Brownlow.

Author

Kennedy, Matthew, 1957-

Publication

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Brownlow, Kevin

Description

xx, 331 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory: Hollywood's Genius Bad Boy is the first biography ever written about this eccentric genius of early-twentieth-century filmmaking. Goulding (1891-1959) was by turns a writer, producer, composer, and actor, but it is as a director that he made an indelible impression. He is most remembered today as the director of Grand Hotel, the great Event Movie of the Depression."
• "At the dawn of sound, he wrote the story for the Academy Award-winning musical The Broadway Melody and collaborated memorably with Gloria Swanson and Joseph Kennedy for The Trespasser. He excelled at anti-war drama (White Banners, The Dawn Patrol, We Are Not Alone), fantastic Bette Davis weepies (Dark Victory, The Old Maid, The Great Lie), lilting romantic dramas (The Constant Nymph, Claudia), big-budgeted literary adaptations (The Razor's Edge), and even film noir (Nightmare Alley)."
• "The London-born Goulding was a complicated and contradictory man whose notorious orgies, bisexuality, drinking and drug addictions were whispered about in Hollywood for years. Yet his well-crafted plots and compelling characters set a new standard in American cinema and had a profound influence on the future of filmmaking."--Jacket.

Subject

• Goulding, Edmund, 1891-1959
• Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biographie (Descripteur de forme)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-319) and index.
• Includes filmography: p. 297-313.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The butcher's boy -- Home in America -- A natty director -- "An inconceivable vaudeville is now being born!" -- Hits and misses -- The lion tamer -- Exile -- Men and women -- The greatest year -- Health, money, and war -- Where do the searchers go? -- A masterpiece of compromise -- On the rocks -- A quiet finish.

ISBN

0299197700 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003022356

OCLC

• 53215783
• SCSB-11598309

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library