Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Romance
Release Year: 1932
Country: USA
Runtime: 112
Rating: 4.3 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Edmund Goulding
Sound: Mono
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Writing by: Vicki Baum – (play "Menschen im Hotel")
William A. Drake – (play "American version")
Béla Balázs – uncredited

Produced by: Paul Bern – producer (uncredited)
Irving Thalberg – producer (uncredited)

Cast: Greta Garbo – Grusinskaya
John Barrymore – Baron Felix von Geigern
Joan Crawford – Flaemmchen
Wallace Beery – Preysing
Lionel Barrymore – Otto Kringelein
Lewis Stone – Dr. Otternschlag
Jean Hersholt – Senf
Robert McWade – Meierheim
Purnell Pratt – Zinnowitz
Ferdinand Gottschalk – Pimenov
Rafaela Ottiano – Suzette

Music: William Axt Charles Maxwell
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Plot Outline: Berlins plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag “People come…
Plot: Berlins 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 missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskayas pearls. He ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats Kringelein, one of his companys lowly bookkeepers but it is the terminally ill Kringelein who holds all the cards in the end. Meanwhile, the Baron also steals the heart of Preysings mistress, Flaemmchen, but she doesnt end up with either one of them in the end…

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
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Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: At the end of the scene in which the Baron asks Flaemmchen for a date, he moves from behind her left shoulder to behind her right shoulder twice. Also, the Barons cigarette seems to disappear without any indication he put it out.

Trivia: There are 19 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• There are no scenes where Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford are in the same frame. This was done to eliminate the possibility that one of the two great stars might upstage the other.
• Joan Crawford was irked by Greta Garbos insistence on top billing and decided to take her revenge. Knowing that Garbo loathed tardiness and Marlene Dietrich in equal measures, Crawford played Dietrich records between shots and made sure to arrive late on set.
• The only Best Picture Oscar winner not to be nominated for any other Academy Awards.