WWI is over . Life in the fast lane has returned to Berlin . At the Berlin Grand Hotel , an idyllic place in the middle of the Big City , crossroads of a thousand lives backdrop to as as many stories . The most expensive hotel and group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious place in Berlin dealing with each of their respective dramas. There is a doctor (Lionel Barrymore) is usually drunk , but he's terminally ill so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern (John Barrymore) is bankrupted and attempting to rob famous dancer Grusinskaya's (Greta Garbo) pearls, but he falls in love with her . She ends up stealing him heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing (Wallace Beery) beats Kringelein, one of his company's lowly bookkeepers . Eventually, is Kringelein who holds all the cards . Meanwhile , the Baron also steals the heart of a stenographer (Joan Crawford ) . Find out all the secrets and mysteries hidden in the wonderful Grand Hotel . Thank The Stars For A Great Entertainment ! .The Sensation of Our Generation!
A Berlin hotel is the fictional place where happens : love , blackmail, jealousies , crime , comedy , and plots and counter-plots all involving the hotel's guests , doctors , tarnished aristocrats and residential employees . Concerning their lives who become hopelessly interwined over 24 hour period . This is an anthology of life of various levels that won an Academy Award for best picture . Adapted and given a red-carpet treatment from a Vicki Baum novel . Time has taken its toll on the concept and developing , but still an engaging vehicle for the star-studded cast . Here Hollywood director Goulding shows his ordinary elegance and refinement with which MGM was identified , the best example of this being Gran hotel (1932). Here stands out Greta Garbo as a world-weary, eccentric ballerina along a fabulous remaining cast as John Barrymore , Joan Crawford , Wallace Beery , Lionel Barrymore , Lewis Stone , among others.
The motion picture was compellingly directed by Edmund Goulding who typified his usual brilliant style . London-born Edmund Goulding was an actor/playwright/director. He obtained assignments as a screenwriter in Hollywood, wrote a novel, "Fury," in 1922 and directed the film version of it (Fury (1923) . Hired as a screenwriter/director by MGM in 1925, Goulding quickly developed a reputation for turning out tasteful, cultured dramas and drawing-room comedies. He was entrusted with the pictures of some of MGM's biggest stars, such as Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford. However, two of his best-known films, and probably the most atypical of his works , were The Razor's Edge (1946) and Nightmare Alley (1947), a dark, brooding drama of greed and corruption among high and low society involving phony mentalists and a conniving psychiatrist. Rating : 7/10. Better than average . The picture will apppeal to Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford fans .
A Berlin hotel is the fictional place where happens : love , blackmail, jealousies , crime , comedy , and plots and counter-plots all involving the hotel's guests , doctors , tarnished aristocrats and residential employees . Concerning their lives who become hopelessly interwined over 24 hour period . This is an anthology of life of various levels that won an Academy Award for best picture . Adapted and given a red-carpet treatment from a Vicki Baum novel . Time has taken its toll on the concept and developing , but still an engaging vehicle for the star-studded cast . Here Hollywood director Goulding shows his ordinary elegance and refinement with which MGM was identified , the best example of this being Gran hotel (1932). Here stands out Greta Garbo as a world-weary, eccentric ballerina along a fabulous remaining cast as John Barrymore , Joan Crawford , Wallace Beery , Lionel Barrymore , Lewis Stone , among others.
The motion picture was compellingly directed by Edmund Goulding who typified his usual brilliant style . London-born Edmund Goulding was an actor/playwright/director. He obtained assignments as a screenwriter in Hollywood, wrote a novel, "Fury," in 1922 and directed the film version of it (Fury (1923) . Hired as a screenwriter/director by MGM in 1925, Goulding quickly developed a reputation for turning out tasteful, cultured dramas and drawing-room comedies. He was entrusted with the pictures of some of MGM's biggest stars, such as Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford. However, two of his best-known films, and probably the most atypical of his works , were The Razor's Edge (1946) and Nightmare Alley (1947), a dark, brooding drama of greed and corruption among high and low society involving phony mentalists and a conniving psychiatrist. Rating : 7/10. Better than average . The picture will apppeal to Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford fans .