Grand Hotel
(DVD) 

Distributors and distribution dates may vary. Distributed by Warner Home Video in 2005. Also issued as part of Greta Garbo, the signature collection.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1932.

Based on the play "Menschen im Hotel" by Vicki Baum.

Title from container.

Special features: new making-of documentary "Checking out: Grand Hotel"; premiere newsreel (1932); Just a word of warning (1932 theatrical announcement); "Nothing ever happens" (newly discovered 1933 Vitaphone short, a spoof on 'Grand Hotel'); theatrical trailers.

Cinematographer, William H. Daniels ; art director, Cedric Gibbons ; editor, Blanche Sewell ; costume designer, Adrian.

Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore.

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 misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper, Kringelein, but in the end it is Kringelein who holds all the cards. Meanwhile, the Baron also steals the heart of Preysing's mistress, Flaemmchen, but in the end, she doesn't end up with either one of them.

Not rated.

DVD; NTSC (Region 1); full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 mono.

English or dubbed French dialogue with optional English, French, and Spanish subtitles.

Closed captioned.

Academy Award (1932): Best picture.

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