9-715: Edmund Goulding (20 March 1891 – 24 December 1959) was a British screenwriter and film director. As an actor early in his career he was one of the 'Ghosts' in the 1922 silent film Three Live Ghosts alongside Norman Kerry and Cyril Chadwick . Also in the early 1920s he wrote several screenplays for star Mae Murray for films directed by her then husband Robert Z. Leonard . Goulding is best remembered for directing cultured dramas such as Love (1927), Grand Hotel (1932) with Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford , Dark Victory (1939) with Bette Davis , The Constant Nymph (1943) with Joan Fontaine , and The Razor's Edge (1946) with Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power . He also directed
18-465: A film magazine , three Allied soldiers escape from a World War I German prisoner-of-war camp and arrive as stowaways in London on Armistice Day . Of the three returning soldiers, one is an English nobleman suffering loss of memory as a result of shell shock , the second is a Cockney who, because he was listed among the dead casualties and his mother took the insurance money, must remain "dead," and
27-661: 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 ). Together with Jack Conway , Goulding holds the distinction of having directed the most Best Picture -nominated films without ever receiving a nomination for Best Director , with three ( Grand Hotel , which won the award; Dark Victory ; and The Razor's Edge ). Goulding died during heart surgery at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, California . He
36-445: 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
45-705: 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. Before moving to films, Goulding was an actor, playwright and director on the London stage. Interviewed about his Goulding biography Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory (2009), film historian 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
54-399: The play to appear in the film. A copy of the film, thought to be lost , was found in a Russian archive and shown publicly in 2015. This version had however been radically re-edited by Soviet censors in the 1920s, making the film a searing critique of post-war Britain, including its relations with Ireland, which achieved Dominion status in the year the film was first shown. As described in
63-525: The third is an American who must remain "dead" due to troubles with the young woman he loves. Hence, the three live ghosts. The nobleman, given to fits of kleptomania , enters a mansion and attires himself in fine raiment and jewelry and then carries off a baby from a perambulator. Returning with a lamb gathered while crossing Hyde Park , the nobleman returns to the Whitechapel home of the Cockney where
72-542: The three ghost soldiers have stopped. After a series of entanglements, there is a resolution of all issues. The English nobleman learns he has robbed his own home and taken his own child, the American and his sweetheart are reconciled and he is freed of a charge unjustly made against him, and the Cockney and his insurance matters are squared up. Film magazine Film periodicals combine discussion of individual films, genres and directors with in-depth considerations of
81-545: Was buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California . Three Live Ghosts (1922 film) Three Live Ghosts is a 1922 British comedy film directed by George Fitzmaurice . Alfred Hitchcock is credited as a title designer . The film is based on a 1920 Broadway play, Three Live Ghosts , by Frederic S. Isham and Max Marcin . Actor Cyril Chadwick is the only performer from
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