Grand Hotel

[1932, Movie]

Grand Hotel: Review

Irving Thalberg's pet project, this MGM blockbuster established for the first time ever the whole idea of the multistar movie. Even today the film crackles with wit, temperament, and vitality, all stemming from the studio's then-finest talent. Five guests of Berlin's finest hotel in Berlin are profiled, including Greta Garbo, an internationally famous ballerina, and John Barrymore, an impoverished baron who schemes to steal Garbo's jewels. Read the complete review for Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel: Cast & Details

Year: 1932
Rated NR

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Cast
Greta Garbo: Grusinskaya
John Barrymore: Baron Felix von Gaigern
Joan Crawford: Flaemmchen
Wallace Beery: General Director Preysing
Lionel Barrymore: Otto Kringelein
Jean Hersholt: Senf

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Grand Hotel: TV Guide News

DVD Tuesdays: Nashville — It's Not Just About Music | Ask FlickChick | 11/20/2006
I love talking about movies, but I've never been able to organize movie-night get-togethers. So this is the next best thing: On Tuesdays I'm going to spotlight a DVD and suggest some virtual-discussion starters.As I was watching Bobby last week (a movie that, by the way, I like rather better than most reviewers, its reach outstrips its grasp, but isn't ambition a good thing?) I couldn't keep my mind off Robert Altman's Nashville (1975), a model for successful multistrand narratives. It's one of my favorite films ever; I saw it when it opened at a now-vanished theater called the Baronet, I showed it regularly during the five years I taught film history/theory/criticism, and after all those viewings it retains the power to chill me with its distillation of the heart-wrenching gulf between ideals and actions, between dreams and the grubby day-to-day reality of making it from sunrise to sunset without drowning in the troubles of the world. I know what you're thinking: You don't really... read more

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