Stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone

Director: Edmund Goulding

Summary: A drama dealing with the interpersonal relationships of a variety of people living in a Berlin hotel.

The creme de la creme of MGM's pantheon gathers at the luxurious GRAND HOTEL, where "nothing ever happens." Greta Garbo is at her most radiant and poetic as the melancholy ballerina who finds a reason to dance again after she falls for the down-and-out Baron (John Barrymore) who planned to rob her. In another room a ravishing young secretary (Joan Crawford) succumbs to the advances of an arrogant industrialist (Wallace Beery). In yet another, a fatally ill office clerk (Lionel Barrymore) spends his life savings in a desperate effort to derive some pleasure from this bleak and brief existence. Downstairs at the bar, a disfigured doctor (Lewis Stone) dispenses wry commentary as people come and go. This precedent-setting ensemble piece of frothy, bubbly, tear-jerking super soap cemented the A-list status of its director, Edmund Goulding. It's an oft-imitated, never duplicated spectacle; the old Hollywood star system lighting up the sky with all the wattage at its disposal.

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Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Featurette - 1. CHECKING OUT, Footage of Hollywood Premiere of Grand Hotel, 1932 Theatre Announcement - JUST A WORD OF WARNING, 1933 Vitaphone Short Film - NOTHING EVER HAPPENS
Year:	1932
Release Date:	February 16, 2004
Runtime:	107 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 065084
Keywords:	Grand, Hotel, General, Drama
Genre:	Drama