Description
Grand Hotel DVD 1932 / Directed by Edmund Goulding / Starring: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford / Black&White classic
UPC 8809097755419
REGION 0 NTSC DVD (ALL REGIONS)
MADE IN KOREA
AUDIO: English 2.0
SUBTITLES: English, Korean, Chinese
Total Runtime: 112 minutes
CONDITION OF THIS DVD IS USED - LIKE NEW
English Summary:
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 of the same title by Drake, who had adapted it from the 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum. To date, it is the only film to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without being nominated in any other category.
Doctor Otternschlag, a disfigured veteran of World War I and a permanent resident of the Grand Hotel in Berlin, observes, "People coming, going. Nothing ever happens" — after which a great deal transpires.
Baron Felix von Gaigern, who squandered his fortune and supports himself as a card player and occasional jewel thief, befriends Otto Kringelein, a dying accountant who has decided to spend his remaining days in the lap of luxury. Kringelein's former employer, industrialist General Director Preysing, is at the hotel to close an important deal, and he hires stenographer Flaemmchen to assist him. She aspires to be an actress and shows Preysing some magazine photos for which she posed, implying she is willing to offer him more than typing if he advances her career.
Cast:
- Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya, the dancer
- John Barrymore as Baron Felix von Geigern
- Joan Crawford as Flaemmchen, the stenographer
- Wallace Beery as General Director Preysing
- Lionel Barrymore as Otto Kringelein
- Lewis Stone as Dr. Otternschlag
- Jean Hersholt as Senf, the porter
- Robert McWade as Meierheim
- Purnell B. Pratt as Zinnowitz
- Ferdinand Gottschalk as Pimenov
- Rafaela Ottiano as Suzette
- Morgan Wallace as Chauffeur
- Tully Marshall as Gerstenkorn
- Frank Conroy as Rohna
- Murray Kinnell as Schweimann
- Edwin Maxwell as Dr. Waitz
- Allen Jenkins as Hotel Meat Packer
| Directed by | Edmund Goulding |
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| Produced by | Irving Thalberg |
| Written by | William A. Drake |
| Based on | Grand Hotel (play) 1930 by William A. Drake and Menschen im Hotel 1929 by Vicki Baum |
| Starring | Greta Garbo John Barrymore Joan Crawford Wallace Beery Lionel Barrymore Lewis Stone Jean Hersholt |
| Music by | William Axt Charles Maxwell |
| Cinematography | William H. Daniels |
| Edited by | Blanche Sewell |
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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112 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
