Fresh
Each and every performer in the screened "Grand Hotel" does a remarkable piece of work. To us, Garbo is the supreme of magnificence.
Irene Thirer, New York Daily News
Grand Hotel
Thank the stars for a great entertainment!
1932 · 1h 52m · PASSED
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Edmund Goulding
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Grand Hotel
Overview
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Director and cast
- Edmund Goulding Director
- Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya - the Dancer
- John Barrymore as The Baron Felix von Gaigern
- Joan Crawford as Flaemmchen - the Stenographer
- Wallace Beery as General Director Preysing
- Lionel Barrymore as Otto Kringelein
- Lewis Stone as Doctor Otternschlag
- Jean Hersholt as Senf - the Porter
- Robert McWade Cast
- Purnell Pratt Cast
- Ferdinand Gottschalk Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A commercial picture of high box office potential, first by assembling the most impressive aggregation so far of strictly Bradstreet screen names, and then by filming the play practically unaltered in form.
Alfred Rushford Greason, Variety
Rotten
Less effective as a movie than as a dazzling parade of star iconography.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
The Nashville of its day, Grand Hotel's reputation has outgrown its actual quality
Andrew Nickolds, Time Out
Fresh
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.
Mordaunt Hall, New York Times
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