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Most notable among the guests are Otto Kringelein (Lionel Barrymore), an ill bookkeeper who has decided to spend his last days in luxury; General Director Preysing (Wallace Beery), a businessman, and Kringelein's boss, who's trying to close an important deal at all costs; Miss Flaemmchen (Joan Crawf...

Grand Hotel (1932) Director: Edmund Goulding Writers: Vicki Baum (screenplay), William Absalom Drake (play) Cast: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore Genre: Drama, Romance

Set amidst the hustle and bustle of the Grand Hotel, the fanciest place to stay in Berlin, it promised a sufficiently compelling and complex film for the early days of talking pictures as it balanced a number of different plots and characters that intertwined and bounced off one another over the cou...