Grand Hotel is a 1932 art deco movie, and is considered as a classic of the sort. 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Asheville City Hall. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ...

It is life from the point of view of a fly on a 5-star wall. It is the Depression and depression done in grand style. Where "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens." The Great Depression was a massive global economic recession (or depression) that ran from 1929 to approximately 1941. ...

The film came from the original German play by Vicki Baum as adapted by William A. Drake and Béla Balázs. It was produced by Irving Thalberg and Paul Bern at MGM, and directed by Edmund Goulding. The top star, Greta Garbo delivered her famous "I want to be alone," in this film. The cast included a series of top names: Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt. Hedwig (Vicki) Baum (January 24, 1888 - August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. ... Béla Balázs (August 4, 1884, Szeged – May 17, 1949, Budapest), born Herbert Bauer, was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic, aesthete, writer and poet. ... Irving Grant Thalberg (May 30, 1899–September 14, 1936) was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... Edmund Goulding (March 20, 1891 - December 21, 1959) was, among other things, an English-born film director. ... Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990) was a Swedish-American actress. ... Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore (April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954), original name: Lionel Blythe, was an American actor of stage, radio and film, elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore. ... John Sidney Blythe (February 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942), better known as John Barrymore, became famous as a Shakespearean actor, lauded for his Hamlet. ... Joan Crawford, photographed by Yousuf Karsh, 1948 Joan Crawford (March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977) was an Academy Award winning American actress. ... Wallace Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American actor, best known for his many cinema appearances. ... Lewis Shepard Stone (November 15, 1879 - September 12, 1953) was an American actor. ... Jean Hersholt (July 12, 1886 - June 2, 1956) was an Danish actor. ...

Grand Hotel won the Best Picture Oscar, the only one for which it received a nomination. The 1945 remake Week-End at the Waldorf starring Ginger Rogers is very well forgotten. The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ginger Rogers (1911–1995) Ginger Rogers, (July 16, 1911 - April 25, 1995), was a legendary American actress and dancer. ...

External link

• IMDb on Grand Hotel