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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: September 11, 1932 |
Starring:
Ferdinand Gottschalk, Greta Garbo, Jean Hersholt, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Lionel Barrymore, Purnell Pratt, Robert McWade, Wallace Beery
Summary:
A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
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Each and every performer in the screened Grand Hotel does a remarkable piece of work. To us, Garbo is the supreme of magnificence.
From Vicki Baum's novel, scrumptiously directed by Goulding, with a constellation of a cast that includes Greta Garbo, John and Lionel Barrymore and Joan Crawford. [28 Nov 1999, p.35]
The real reasons to see it are Barrymore, Barrymore and Crawford, the beating hearts of the picture. [21 Jun 2018, p.E5]
In some ways this 1932 item is the definitive MGM film, in which the direction (Edmund Goulding), screenplay (William A. Drake), and cinematography (William Daniels) all seem deliberately pale, the better to set off the glitter of the stars; they’re like jewels mounted in a deliberately neutral display case.
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