GRAND HOTEL
"GRAND HOTEL" --- (1932) ---
SYNOPSIS: "At a luxurious Berlin hotel between the wars, the once-wealthy Baron Felix von Gaigern supports himself as a thief and gambler. In this lavish adaptation of the successful Broadway play, the baron romances one of his marks, the aging ballerina Grusinskaya, and teams with dying accountant Otto Kringelein against his former boss, crooked industrialist Preysing, and his ambitious stenographer, Flaemmchen."
STARRING: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery and Lewis Stone
SCREENPLAY: William A. Drake, based on the 1930 play of the same title by Drake, who had adapted it from the 1929 novel "Menschen im Hotel" by Vicki Baum.
DIRECTOR: Edmund Goulding
AWARDS & OTHER HONORS:
It was nominated for one (1) Academy Award, which it won, for:
"Best Picture"
It was nominated for two (2) additional awards, from various entities, and won one of them.
In 2007, it was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry at The Library of Congress.
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