Rating: NR
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 02/03/2004
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 112 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video

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.

~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Greta Garbo - Grusinskaya
John Barrymore - Baron Felix von Geigern
Joan Crawford - Flaemmchen
Wallace Beery - General Director Preysing
Lionel Barrymore - Otto Kringelein
Jean Hersholt - Senf
Robert McWade - Meierheim
Purnell Pratt - Zinnowitz
Ferdinand Gottschalk - Pimenov
Rafaela Ottiano - Suzette
Morgan Wallace - Chauffeur
Tully Marshall - Gerstenkorn
Frank Conroy - Rohna
Murray Kinnell - Schweimann

Production:
Edmund Goulding - Director
Irving G. Thalberg - Producer
Blanche Sewell - Editor
William A. Drake - Screen Writer
Cedric Gibbons - Art Director
William H. Daniels - Cinematographer
Adrian - Costume Designer
Vicki Baum - Play Author
William A. Drake - Play Author
Jean Hersholt - Screen Story
Lewis Stone - Play Author

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