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Mood:
- SentimentalStylizedBittersweetCleverGloomy
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Plot:
- Human NatureCouple RelationsFall in LoveLove and RomanceCouplesDancer's LifeIntrospectionFriendship more...
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Genres:
- DramaRomanceMelodrama
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Place:
- EuropeGermanyHotel
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Audience:
- Date Night
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Praise:
- Oscar Winner
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Style:
- Ensemble Cast
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Look:
- B&W
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Grand Hotel, 1932
English
USA
Profile of Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel can be described as bittersweet, stylized, and sentimental. The plot revolves around human nature, falling in love, and couples relations. The main genres are drama and romance. In terms of style, Grand Hotel stars an ensemble cast and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Grand Hotel is set, at least in part, in a hotel. It is located in Germany. Visually, it is black and white. Grand Hotel is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being an Oscar winner. It is well suited for a date night.
Summary of Grand Hotel
The crème de la crème of MGM's pantheon gathers at the luxurious Grand Hotel, where "nothing ever happens." Greta Garbo is at her most radiant and poetic as the melancholy ballerina who finds a reason to dance again after she falls for the down-and-out Baron (John Barrymore) who planned to rob her. In another room a ravishing young secretary (Joan Crawford) succumbs to the advances of an arrogant industrialist (Wallace Beery). In yet another, a fatally ill office clerk (Lionel Barrymore) spends his life savings in a desperate effort to derive some pleasure from this bleak and brief existence. Downstairs at the bar, a disfigured doctor (Lewis Stone) dispenses wry commentary as people come and go. This precedent-setting ensemble piece of frothy, bubbly, tear-jerking super soap cemented the A-list status of its director, Edmund Goulding. It's an oft-imitated, never duplicated spectacle; the old Hollywood star system lighting up the sky with all the wattage at its disposal.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 12 April 1932 |
| Runtime: | 112 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
Awards
Cast and Crew
as Grusinskaya
as Flaemmchen
as Baron Felix von Geigern
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