Movie: "Grand Hotel"
| Release Date: | Apr 1932 |
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| Genres: | Romance / Drama |
| Awards | Won Oscar. Another 1 win |
| Runtime: | 112 min. |
| Cast: | Greta Garbo (Grusinskaya - the Dancer), John Barrymore (The Baron Felix von Gaigern) Joan Crawford (Flaemmchen - the Stenographer) Wallace Beery (General Director Preysing) Lionel Barrymore (Otto Kringelein) Lewis Stone (Doctor Otternschlag) Jean Hersholt (Senf - the Porter) Robert McWade (Meierheim (as Robert Mc Wade)) Purnell Pratt (Zinnowitz (as Purnell B. Pratt)) Ferdinand Gottschalk (Pimenov) Rafaela Ottiano (Suzette) Morgan Wallace (Chauffeur) Tully Marshall (Gerstenkorn) Frank Conroy (Rohna) Murray Kinnell (Schweimann) Edwin Maxwell (Dr. Waitz) Joan Barclay (Young Girl in Lobby (uncredited)) Max Barwyn (Hotel Guest / Gambler (uncredited)) Mary Carlisle (Mrs. Hoffman - Young Honeymooner...) John Davidson (Hotel Manager (uncredited)) Herbert Evans (Clerk (uncredited) (unconfirmed)) Edmund Goulding (Cameo Appearance (uncredited)) Sherry Hall (Hotel Guest (uncredited)) Allen Jenkins (Hotel meat packer (uncredited)) Robert Lees (Bellboy (uncredited)) Eric Mayne (Gambler (uncredited)) Philo McCullough (Hotel Guest / Gambler (uncredited)) Sam McDaniel (Bartender (uncredited) (unconfirmed)) Greta Meyer (Housekeeper in Room 174 (uncredited)) Sarah Padden (Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)) Lee Phelps (Hotel Guest (uncredited)) Edward Reinach (Hotel Guest (uncredited)) Bodil Rosing (Nurse helping old lady into elevator...) Dick Rush (Gendarme (uncredited)) Rolfe Sedan (Hotel Guest in Bar (uncredited)) Leo White (Hotel Porter (uncredited)) Florence Wix (Hotel Guest (uncredited)) |
Storyline: 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...
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