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Grand Hotel is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by William A. Drake is based on the 1930 play of the same title by Drake, who had adapted it from the 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum.
Grand Hotel: Directed by Edmund Goulding. With Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery. A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
- (21K)
- Drama, Romance
- Edmund Goulding
- 1932-09-11
Based on the novel Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum (Berlin, 1929) and her play of the same name (Berlin, Feb 1930) as adapted in English under the title Grand Hotel by William A. Drake (New York, 13 Nov 1930).
- Edmund Goulding
- Greta Garbo
Perhaps less a true film than a series of star-studded vignettes, Grand Hotel still remains an entertaining look back at a bygone Hollywood era. Read Critics Reviews
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- Greta Garbo
- Edmund Goulding
- Drama
Jul 8, 2014 · Subscribed. 58. 9.5K views 9 years ago. OSCAR WINNER:Best PictureGreta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and Wallace Beery star in 1932's Grand Hotel, based on the...
- 2 min
- 9.6K
- Warner Bros.
The episodic film (at 112 minutes in length) of a bygone era was set at Berlin's ritzy, opulent art-deco Grand Hotel, and told the multiple-narrative story of the criss-crossing of the lives of five major guests whose fates intertwined for a two-day period at the hotel.
An early prototype for the intersecting, multiple character plot. Here, it’s five different people staying at the Grand Hotel in Berlin - a baron, a ballerina, a stenographer, a dying man and a businessman - who all cross paths in one way or another.
