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Grand Hotel
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"Grand Hotel" is a 1932 film directed by Edmund Goulding that follows the interconnected stories of various guests and staff at a luxury Berlin hotel. The film is notable as an early example of an ensemble cast movie that weaves together multiple storylines and characters.
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7.0Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Cast
- Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya
- John Barrymore as Baron Felix von Gaigern
- Joan Crawford as Flämmchen
- Wallace Beery as General Director Preysing
- Lionel Barrymore as Otto Kringelein
- Lewis Stone as Doctor Otternschlag
Themes
- hotel
- card game
- burglar
- stolen money
- based on play or musical
- industrialist
- baron
- dying man
- murder
- tragic love
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Edmund Goulding
- Written by
- William A. Drake
- Based on
- Grand Hotel , 1930 play, by William A. Drake Grand Hotel , 1929 novel, by Vicki Baum
- Produced by
- Irving Thalberg
- Starring
- Greta Garbo , John Barrymore , Joan Crawford , Wallace Beery , Lionel Barrymore , Lewis Stone , Jean Hersholt
- Cinematography
- William H. Daniels
- Edited by
- Blanche Sewell
- Music by
- William Axt , Charles Maxwell
- Production company
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Distributed by
- Loew's, Inc.
- Release dates
- April 12, 1932 ( 1932-04-12 ) (New York City, premiere)
- Running time
- 112 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $750,000
- Box office
- $2,594,000
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- romance film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Grand Hotel
- Movement
- Pre-Code Hollywood
- Director
- Edmund Goulding
- Screenwriter
- Vicki Baum
- Cast member
- Edwin Maxwell
- Composer
- William Axt
- Producer
- Irving Thalberg
- Production company
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cinematographer
- William H. Daniels
- Narrative location
- Berlin
- Duration
- 113
- FilmAffinity ID
- 747523
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Grand Hotel lobby card.jpg
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- Commons category
- Grand Hotel (film)
- publication date
- 1933-03-01
- film editor
- Blanche Sewell
- title
- Grand Hotel
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Picture
- production designer
- Cedric Gibbons
- distributed by
- Netflix
- color
- black-and-white
- costume designer
- Adrian
- executive producer
- Irving Thalberg
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- set in environment
- hotel
- review score
- 87%
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
MGM remade the film as Week-End at the Waldorf in 1945. The German remake Menschen im Hotel was released in 1959, and it served as the basis for the 1989 Tony Award-winning stage musical Grand Hotel. In 1977, MGM announced a musical remake, to take place at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Hotel and directed by Norman Jewison, but the production was cancelled.
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