Grand Hotel

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On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1932.
Based on the play "Menschen im Hotel" by Vicki Baum.
Special features: "Checking out: Grand Hotel" making-of documentary; Hollywood premiere of 'Grand Hotel' (1932 newsreel); Just a word of warning (1932 theatrical announcement); "Nothing ever happens" (newly discovered 1933 Vitaphone short, a spoof on 'Grand Hotel'; theatrical trailers.
Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt, Robert McWade, Purnell Pratt.
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 misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper, Kringelein, but in the end it is Kringelein who holds all the cards. Meanwhile, the Baron also steals the heart of Preysing's mistress, Flaemmchen, but in the end, she doesn't end up with either one of them.
DVD, Region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 mono.
Contents: Menschen im Hotel.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

The Golden Age submitted by breaking_glass on September 7, 2010, 10:41am Grand Hotel takes place in the short golden age of1920s Berlin - post WWI and pre WWII. It was also filmed during the golden age of MGM Studios. (I was a little disappointed, but not surprised, that the movie was not filmed in an art deco hotel in Germany, but on the MGM Studios lot.) The film stars two Barrymores, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and many others. Forget Greta Garbo though. In my opinion, the stunning Joan Crawford steals the show and outshines Garbo. From Garbo's role in the film, you will hear a classic line that became synonymous with her reclusive personality: "I want to be left alone."

In 1932, a film with multiple big name Hollywood stars was a novel idea. Today, we've seen this many times in many films. The idea being more stars, more tickets sold. With Grand Hotel, I thought the story was on the weak side, but you'll have so much fun watching it doesn't really matter. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1932.

DVD submitted by 0liviap0pp on August 22, 2011, 9:10am This is such a great movie!