Grand Hotel (MGM - 112min)
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Starring John Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and Lionel Barrymore
Genre: Drama, Romance
Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens." Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls. He ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats Kringelein, one of his company's lowly bookkeepers but it is the terminally ill Kringelein who holds all the cards in the end. Meanwhile, the Baron also steals the heart of Preysing's stenographer, Flaemmchen, but she doesn't end up with either one of them in the end.
Trivia: It was the only Best Picture Oscar winner not to be nominated for any other Academy Awards.
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Was the german guy a nazi sypathiser?
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Which German guy? The movie was in Berlin. They were all German.
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