Grand Hotel (1932)
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Genres - Drama |
Sub-Genres - Ensemble Film, Melodrama, Romantic Drama |
Run Time - 112 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Matthew Tobey
Based on Vicki Baum's novel and produced by Irving Thalberg, this film is about the lavish Grand Hotel in Berlin, a place where "nothing ever happens." That statement proves to be false, however, as the story follows an intertwining cast of characters over the course of one tumultuous day. Greta Garbo is Grusinskaya, a ballerina whose jewels are coveted by Baron von Geigern (John Barrymore), a thief who fancies Flaemmchen (Joan Crawford), a stenographer and the mistress of Preysing (Wallace Beery), businessman boss of Kringelein (Lionel Barrymore), a terminally ill bookkeeper who is under the care of alcoholic physician Dr. Otternschlag (Lewis Stone). Grand Hotel won Best Picture at the 1932 Academy Awards.
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Keywords
ballet-dance, clerk, disaster, hotel, killing, nobility, pearl, poison, robbery, romance, seduction, slice-of-life, stranger, suicide, telephone, witness
Attributes
High Budget, High Historical Importance
