Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by William A. Drake is 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. To date, it is the only film to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without being nominated in any other category.
Plot
Doctor Otternschlag, a disfigured veteran of World War I and a permanent resident of the Grand Hotel in Berlin, observes, "People coming, going. Nothing ever happens" — after which a great deal transpires.
Awards
Cast
- Allen Jenkins
- Bert Moorhouse
- Bodil Rosing
- Edwin Maxwell
- Ferdinand Gottschalk
- Florence Wix
- Frank Conroy
- Greta Garbo
- Greta Meyer
- Jean Hersholt
- Joan Crawford
- John Barrymore
- John Davidson
- Leo White
- Lewis Stone
- Lionel Barrymore
- Mary Carlisle
- Morgan Wallace
- Murray Kinnell
- Philo McCullough
- Purnell Pratt
- Rafaela Ottiano
- Robert McWade
- Rolfe Sedan
- Sarah Padden
- Tully Marshall
- Wallace Beery
More details
| author | Béla Balázs Vicki Baum William A. Drake |
|---|---|
| award | Academy Award for Best Picture National Film Registry |
| contentLocation | Berlin |
| director | Edmund Goulding |
| editor | Blanche Sewell |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | arrest ballerina ballet belong card game expect grand hotel hide jewel thief kill morning nothing shadow train station type vienna wait win world war i |
| musicBy | William Axt |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Picture |
| producer | Irving Thalberg |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |