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Grand Hotel (1932)

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User Rating: 7.6/10 (4,143 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Edmund Goulding
Writers:
Vicki Baum (play)
William A. Drake (play)
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Release Date:
15 July 1932 (France) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
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... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 1 win more
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Additional Details

Runtime:
112 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Norway:16 (1933) | Portugal:17 (original rating) | UK:U (video rating) | UK:A (original rating) | South Korea:15 | Australia:PG | Portugal:M/6 (DVD rating) | USA:Approved
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Trivia:
Extra scenes with Greta Garbo were added after previews to ensure that Joan Crawford didn't walk off with the picture. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Mr. Kringelein drunkenly slams his door shut, the wall visibly shakes. more
Quotes:
Grusinskaya: Who are you?
Baron Felix von Geigern: Someone who could love you, that's all. Someone who's forgotten everything else but you.
Grusinskaya: You could love me?
Baron Felix von Geigern: I've never seen anything in my life as beautiful as you are.
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938) more
Soundtrack:
Grand Hotel more

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She wanted to be alone, 21 September 2005
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Author: jotix100 from New York

Vicky Baum's novel "Menschen I'm Hotel" serves as the basis for this 1932 film that was a vehicle for Greta Garbo. "Grand Hotel", as directed by Edmund Golding, was a magnificent film that had a lot of first class stars of the era in prominent roles. In fact, this seems to be one of the first films to have relied in the prominent "names" it gathered to portray the different characters in the movie.

By today's standards, the film is dated, but for a discriminating film fan, "Grand Hotel" is a classic because of the star turns one witnesses. Also, today's fans have to make concessions for the style of acting that was prevalent at the time. The movies have begun "talking" not long before this film was made and the stars of those silents were still doing their acting in front of the camera as though no one was going to hear them talk. In fact, most of the complaints in comments submitted to this forum would have been different if this was 1932 and the film had just come out.

The best advice for anyone new to this film is to sit back, relax, and enjoy the trials and tribulations of the people seen at Berlin's Grand Hotel.

The biggest surprise of the film is the shortness of Greta Garbo presence in the film, in which for some unknown reason, she looms large above the rest of the players. As the Russian ballerina Grusinskaya, Ms. Garbo played one of the best characters of her career. Her way of acting is still imbued with what was expected of her.

John Barrymore as the Baron Von Geigern, the impoverished nobleman, is key to the story. The moment he meets the great Grusinskaya, he is lost forever. Lionel Barrymore is excellent as the poor Otto Kringelein, who thinks he is going to die real soon. Joan Crawford, is the stenographer Flaemmchen who seems to arise passion among all the men she meets. Ms. Crawford does excellent work in a role she discarded later on in favor of more dramatic appearances.

What makes "Grand Hotel" the timeless classic it became is the magnificent camera work by William H. Daniels, a man who knew how to get the best out of Greta Garbo in their many films together. Also the music which is from Franz Lehar's "The Merry Widow" serves as a nice distraction in the background.

The most famous phrase in the film "I want to be alone", seems prophetic in retrospect as the divine Garbo had about eight more years in the movies.

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