Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel is a
1932 art deco movie, and is a classic of the sort. Its life from the point of view of a fly on a 5-star wall. It's the Depression and depression done in grand style. where "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens." The film came from the original german play by Vicki Baum as adapted by William A. Drake and Béla Balázs. It was produced by
Irving Thalberg and Paul Bern at
MGM, and directed by Edmund Goulding. The top star,
Greta Garbo delivered her famous "I vant to be alone," in this film. The cast included a series of top names:
Lionel Barrymore,
John Barrymore,
Joan Crawford,
Lewis Stone and
Jean Hersholt.
Grand Hotel won the
Best Picture Oscar, the only one for which it received a nomination. The 1945 Americanized remake Week-End at the Waldorf starring
Ginger Rogers is very well forgotten.
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