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Edmund
Goulding's Dark Victory
Hollywood's Genius Bad
Boy
Matthew Kennedy
Foreword by Kevin Brownlow
Terrace Books, a trade imprint
of the University of Wisconsin Press
He got Bette Davis's eyes on film
This is the first biography of
an eccentric genius of early twentieth-century filmmaking. Edmund
Goulding (1891–1959) is most remembered as the director
of Grand Hotel. He wrote the story for the Oscar-winning
musical The Broadway Melody and collaborated with Gloria
Swanson and Joseph Kennedy for The Trespasser. He excelled
at anti-war drama (The Dawn Patrol), Bette Davis weepies
(Dark Victory), romantic dramas (The Constant Nymph),
big-budget literary adaptations (The Razor's Edge), and
film noir (Nightmare Alley). Goulding was a complicated,
contradictory man whose notorious orgies, bisexuality, drinking,
and drug addictions were whispered about in Hollywood. Yet his
well-crafted plots and compelling characters had a profound influence
on the future of filmmaking.
Matthew Kennedy
teaches anthropology at City College of San Francisco and film
history at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
For more publicity information, call our marketing department
at 608-263-0734 or e-mail uwiscpress@uwpress.wisc.edu
The University of Wisconsin Press also
publishes the screenplay for Dark Victory
in our Wisconsin/Warner Bros screenplay series.
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April 2004
LC: 2003022356 PN
344 pp. 6 x 9 20 b/w photos
ISBN 0-299-19770-0 Cloth $35.00 t
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