Grand Hotel Summary
Director: Edmund Goulding
Genres: Drama
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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, Rovi
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