Creaky, aged and utterly enchanting.
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02/20/08
Grand Hotel (1932)
84 %
Reviews Counted: 25 Fresh: 21 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.3/10
Consensus:
Perhaps less a true film than a series of star-studded vignettes, Grand Hotel still remains an entertaining look back at a bygone Hollywood era.
Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins
Synopsis: The crème de la crème of MGM's pantheon gathers at the luxurious Grand Hotel, where "nothing ever happens." Greta Garbo is at her most radiant and poetic as the melancholy ballerina who finds a reason to dance again after she falls for the down-and-out Baron (John Barrymore) who planned to rob... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore
Director: Edmund Goulding
Reviews
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The Nashville of its day, Grand Hotel's reputation has outgrown its actual quality
06/24/06
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Goulding, a master of camp, shepherds rather than directs his famous cast through the series of adventures and misadventures.
05/24/03
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05/09/08
A commercial picture of high box office potential, first by assembling the most impressive aggregation so far of strictly Bradstreet screen names, and then by filming the play practically unaltered in form.
01/29/08
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Less effective as a movie than as a dazzling parade of star iconography.
12/12/06
An all-star cast give varying shades of good performances to highlight a fun and interesting story about the sordid affairs of the rich and not-so-famous.
10/05/06
It comes with a grand reputation but by today's standards is outdated.
09/26/05
MGM at its glossiest and most melodramatic, with a an all-star cast that includes Garbo, John and Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford, and Lewis Stone--the kind of pictures they don't make anymore.
06/06/05
It’s a Hollywood legend, a big, brassy melodrama overflowing with top stars.
02/27/05
A lesson on just how far motion pictures have come, and thank heavens for 1970s independent filmmaking or Hollywood might still resemble Louis Mayer’s fantasy world.
08/23/04
Movie stars existed before Grand Hotel, and yet this picture seems to reinvent the whole concept right before your dazzled eyes.
07/30/04
What may come as a surprise is that, among this illustrious cast, it is Crawford who stands out.
04/20/04
...perhaps just a tad too much swooning and preening from its two principal stars to make it an absolute personal favorite. But entertaining? You bet.
02/02/04
If you're in the mood for a sentimental look back, by all means check in.
01/11/04
Less a movie than a series of vignettes starring some of the greatest names Hollywood and the stage have ever produced.
07/17/03
It is a production thoroughly worthy of all the talk it has created and the several motion-picture luminaries deserve to feel very proud of their performances, particularly Greta Garbo and Lionel Barrymore.
05/20/03
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