<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n Quick Plot<\/strong><\/p>\n Set in Berlin’s\u00a0most\u00a0exclusive hotel, where in the words of disfigured WWI war vereren Dr. Otternschlag “People come, people go; nothing ever happens” – words he also ends the film with. However as the film unfolds this is shown not to be true as broke swindler Baron von Geigern tries to steal from Grusinskaya before falling for her\u00a0 instead. Plenty of other sub plots bubble along and the 112 minutes of the film seems to pass remarkably quickly. Worth watching for Greta Gabos famous line “I want to be alone”.<\/p>\n Cast<\/strong><\/p>\n Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya – The Dancer Cost $700,000 to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trailer for the 1932 Oscar Winning Grand Hotel \u00a0 Quick Plot Set in Berlin’s\u00a0most\u00a0exclusive hotel, where in the words of disfigured WWI war vereren Dr. Otternschlag “People come, people go; nothing ever happens” – words he also ends the film with. However as the film unfolds this is shown not to be true as broke…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[54,420,573,649],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1930s-oscar-winning-films","tag-54","tag-grand-hotel","tag-metro-goldwyn-mayer","tag-oscar-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJohn Barrymore as The Baron Felix von Gaigern
\nJoan Crawford as Flaemmchen – The Stenographer
\nWallace Beery as General Director Preysing
\nLionel Barrymore as Otto Kringelein
\nLewis Stone as Dr Otternschlag
\nJean Hersholt as Senf – The Porter
\nRobert McWade as Meierheim
\nPurnell Pratt as Zinnowitz
\nFerdinand Gottschalk as Pimenov
\nRafaela Ottiano as Suzette
\nMorgan Wallace as Chauffeur
\nTully Marshall as Gerstenkorn
\nFrank Conroy as Rohna
\nMurray Kinnell as Schweimann
\nEdwin Maxwell as Dr Waitz<\/p>\n