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Release Date:
11 September 1932 (USA)
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Thank The Stars For A Great Entertainment !
Plot:
Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come...
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Won Oscar.
Another 1 win
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'House star' Olivia Wilde talks fame, 'Fix' and her Irish pride (IrishCentral)
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Dated, melodramatic...and MAGNIFICENT
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Greta Garbo | ... | Grusinskaya - the Dancer |
 | John Barrymore | ... | The Baron Felix von Gaigern |
 | Joan Crawford | ... | Flaemmchen - the Stenographer |
 | Wallace Beery | ... | General Director Preysing |
 | Lionel Barrymore | ... | Otto Kringelein |
 | Lewis Stone | ... | Doctor Otternschlag |
| Jean Hersholt | ... | Senf - the Porter |
| Robert McWade | ... | Meierheim (as Robert Mc Wade) |
| Purnell Pratt | ... | Zinnowitz (as Purnell B. Pratt) |
| Ferdinand Gottschalk | ... | Pimenov |
| Rafaela Ottiano | ... | Suzette |
| Morgan Wallace | ... | Chauffeur |
| Tully Marshall | ... | Gerstenkorn |
| Frank Conroy | ... | Rohna |
| Murray Kinnell | ... | Schweimann |
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Runtime:
112 min (Turner library print)
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Portugal:17 (original rating) |
South Korea:15 |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:U (video rating) |
Norway:16 (1933) |
Sweden:15 |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
USA:TV-PG (TV rating) |
New Zealand:PG |
West Germany:16 |
Australia:PG |
Portugal:M/6 (DVD rating) |
USA:Approved (PCA #2276-R: 13 May 1936 for re-release)
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During the filming of the busy lobby scenes, the actors wore socks over their shoes to prevent noise. Reportedly two hundred pairs of woolen socks were worn out daily.
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Continuity: At the end of the scene in which the Baron asks Flaemmchen for a date, he moves from behind her left shoulder to behind her right shoulder twice. Also, the Baron's cigarette seems to disappear without any indication he put it out.
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Quotes:
Baron Felix von Geigern:
[looking down from the sixth-floor balcony over the front desk] You know, I've often wondered what'd happen to that old porter if somebody jumped on him from here.
Flaemmchen: I'm sure I don't know. Why don't you try it and find out?
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Flaemmchen: I'm sure I don't know. Why don't you try it and find out?
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Movie Connections:
Featured in The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
Kunstlerleben (Artist's Life), Op.316
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I've seen "Grand Hotel" at least fifteen times -- more than any other '30s film with the possible exception of two other classics: "King Kong" and Astaire and Rogers' "The Gay Divorcee."
Quite a few others reviewers here have commented negatively on this "creaky" old film. They are correct -- it is -- and yet, who cares? It's utterly wonderful!
The whole cast is superb -- charming, desperate, vulnerable John Barrymore; cynical, sad, appealing Joan Crawford; pathetic, whining, irrepressible Lionel Barrymore; coarse, selfish, all-too-humanly cruel Wallace Beery; and of course, the great Greta Garbo. The supporting cast, led by Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt, are equally good.
Those who criticize Garbo as over-the-top in her portrayal of the prima ballerina are right. She IS over-the-top, AND she is absolutely glorious, whether wallowing in self-pitying, suicidal despair or radiant as the spring with a new love which astonishes and transports her. What a unique, unforgettable screen presence! What a Goddess!
"Grand Hotel" holds this viewer, anyway, entranced from beginning to end. In addition to the superlative acting, the art deco design is stunning and the music always appropriate.
Creaky? You bet. Do they make movies like this anymore? Nope. Do I wish they did? I sure do.