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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 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.
Rated 4/5 Stars • 08/27/22. It is the only film to win Best Picture without being nominated in any other category. The line, "i want to be alone," by Greta Garbo is considered one of the great ...
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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.
Synopsis. Dr. Otternschlag, a resident at the Grand Hotel, Berlin's most expensive hotel, observes that life at the hotel is "always the same. People come--people go, nothing ever happens." Guests check in, share parts of their lives with one another and then leave.
Author and playwright Vicki Baum based "Menschen im Hotel" both on a true story about a scandal at a hotel involving a stenographer and an industrial magnate, and on her own experiences working as a chambermaid at two well-known Berlin hotels.
Grand Hotel (1932) In Edmund Goulding's Best Picture-winning melodramatic ensemble film (also an example of a portmanteau picture), featuring all of MGM's stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, in the setting of a ritzy, art-deco Berlin hotel between the wars - and detailing the intertwined lives of five guests over a two-day period, including two ...
