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Grand Hotel

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

Grand Hotel

1932

Edmund Goulding

Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Lewis Stone ...

7.1

3,159

Drama Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Alfred Rushford Greason Variety	"Better than just a good transcription of the Vicki Baum stage play."	POS
United States	Mordaunt Hall The New York Times	"It is a production thoroughly worthy of all the talk it has created and the several motion- picture luminaries deserve to feel very proud of their performances, particularly Greta Garbo and Lionel Barrymore."	POS
United States	Irene Thirer New York Daily News	"Each and every performer in the screened 'Grand Hotel' does a remarkable piece of work. To us, Garbo is the supreme of magnificence."	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Creaky, aged and utterly enchanting. One to be seen on a proper print if you can (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Less effective as a movie than as a dazzling parade of star iconography"	NEU
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"Most of the players give impossibly bad performances (...) But if you want to see what screen glamour used to be, and what, originally, 'stars' were, this is perhaps the best example of all time."	NEU
United States	Chris Cabin Slant	"The film only works because director Edmund Goulding gives his spaces the same power and art-deco glamour as his performers (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Joanna Berry Radio Times	"It is art director Cedric Gibbons who deserves the plaudits for the luscious look of the film (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"'Grand Hotel' remains notable primarily for its cast (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"'Grand Hotel's reputation has outgrown its actual quality, and it is now interesting only as an example of the portmanteau style"	NEU

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