Notable Film Fact(s):
The film is based on the 1930 play of the same title and was adapted from the 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum.
When the film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, it was the sole category in which it was nominated.
In 2007, Grand Hotel was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.
The film was remade as Week-End at the Waldorf in 1945. It also served as the basis for the 1989 stage musical of the same title.
Film Synopsis:
Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls. He ends up stealing her heart instead.
Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats Kringelein, one of his company's lowly bookkeepers but it is the terminally ill Kringelein who holds all the cards in the end. Meanwhile, the Baron also steals the heart of Preysing's mistress, Flaemmchen, but she doesn't end up with either one of them in the end.
Director:
Edmund Goulding
Producer:
Irving Thalberg
Screenplay:
William A. Drake
Béla Balázs
Cast:
Greta Garbo
John Barrymore
Joan Crawford
Wallace Beery
Lionel Barrymore
Lewis Stone
Jean Hersholt
Distributor:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date(s): September 11, 1932
Running time: 112 minutes
My View Rating: ***
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