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Release Date: 1932 Cast: Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Edwin Maxwell, Robert McWade, Purnell Pratt, Frank Conroy, Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Rafaela Ottiano, Murray Kinnell, Joan Crawford ...MORE
Cast: Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Edwin Maxwell, Robert McWade, Purnell Pratt, Frank Conroy, Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Rafaela Ottiano, Murray Kinnell, Joan Crawford, Jean Hersholt, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Morgan Wallace, Tully Marshall ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Ensemble Film, Melodrama, Black-and-white, Pre-Code, Romantic drama Grand Hotel is a 1932 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by William A. Drake and Béla Balázs 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. The film is the only one to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without it or its participants being nominated in any other category.
In 2007, Grand Hotel was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The line "I... MORE
Grand Hotel is a 1932 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by William A. Drake and Béla Balázs 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. The film is the only one to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without it or its participants being nominated in any other category.
In 2007, Grand Hotel was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The line "I want to be alone," famously delivered by Greta Garbo, placed #30 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.
The film was remade as Week-End at the Waldorf in 1945. It also served as the basis for the 1989 stage musical of the same title. The phrase "Grand Hotel theme" came to be used for any dramatic movie following the activities of various people in a large busy place, with some of the characters' lives overlapping in odd ways and some of them remaining unaware of one another's existence. Such "grand hotel" films have been set at airports, aboard ocean liners, in large department stores, etc., as well LESS
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