Grand Hotel
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 8, 2008
- Originally Released: 1932
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Wallace Beery & Lionel Barrymore | |
Performer: | Purnell Pratt, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Jean Hersholt, Robert McWade & Rafaela Ottiano | |
Directed by | Edmund Goulding | |
Edited by | Blanche Sewell | |
Written by | William A. Drake |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"I want to be alone."
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1932 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
The first great portmanteau film.
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Sky Cinema
The camera movements and production values are elaborate and intriguing and engaging. There is a sense of activity, of bustle in every frame.
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Nerdist
Less effective as a movie than as a dazzling parade of star iconography.
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Chicago Reader
The Nashville of its day, Grand Hotel's reputation has outgrown its actual quality
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Time Out
The two actresses are great.
USA Today
Rating: 3/4 --
How thoroughly does Joan Crawford own Grand Hotel? She makes Greta Garbo superfluous.
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LarsenOnFilm
Rating: 3/5 --
This is Golden Era Hollywood-studio style at its most opulent.
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Total Film
Product Description:
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.
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Product Info
- UPC: 883929002450
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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