Grand Hotel
Adaptation of William Drake play · Released 1932
Grand Hotel is a 1932 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by William A. Drake is based on the 1930 play by Drake, who had adapted it from the 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum. MGM remade the pre-Code film as Week-End at the Waldorf in 1945. The German remake Menschen im Hotel was released in 1959, and it served as the basis for the 1989 Tony Award-winning stage musical Grand Hotel.
Cast ages at release (1932)
- Greta Garbo, as Grusinskaya: 26–27
- Joan Crawford, as Flaemmchen: 26–27
- John Barrymore, as Baron Felix von Gaigern: 49–50
- Lionel Barrymore, as Otto Kringelein: 53–54
- Wallace Beery, as General Director Preysing: 46–47
- Jean Hersholt, as Senf: 45–46
- Lewis Stone, as Dr. Otternschlag: 52–53
- Ferdinand Gottschalk, as Pimenov: 73–74
- Frank Conroy, as Rohna: 41–42
- Morgan Wallace, as Chauffeur: 50–51
- Murray Kinnell, as Schweimann: 42–43
- Purnell Pratt, as Zinnowitz: 46–47
- Rafaela Ottiano, as Suzette: 43–44
- Robert McWade, as Meierheim: 59–60
- Tully Marshall, as Gerstenkorn: 67–68
- Allen Jenkins, as Hotel Meat Packer: 31–32
- Edwin Maxwell, as Dr. Waitz: 45–46