Don't expect a particularly lucid screenplay or even acting of a high order; this masterpiece is hopelessly dated.
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Grand Hotel (1932)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:23
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.4/10
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
Genre: Dramas
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... [More]
Starring: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery
Director: Edmund Goulding
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Reviews for Grand Hotel
Goulding, a master of camp, shepherds rather than directs his famous cast through the series of adventures and misadventures.
05/24/03
As it is, the hotel is well filled.
02/17/09
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
No review available.
10/31/03
Less effective as a movie than as a dazzling parade of star iconography.
12/12/06
Top CriticIt’s a Hollywood legend, a big, brassy melodrama overflowing with top stars.
02/27/05
Creaky, aged and utterly enchanting.
02/20/08
It comes with a grand reputation but by today's standards is outdated.
09/26/05
The Nashville of its day, Grand Hotel's reputation has outgrown its actual quality
06/24/06
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
If you're in the mood for a sentimental look back, by all means check in.
01/11/04
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
Grand Hotel was the first Garbo film I ever saw, and she enchanted me effortlessly, despite the presence of the rest of the powerful ensemble cast.
05/09/08
No review available.
09/03/02
...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
Luminous star-studded classic with standout Garbo and John Barrymore performances.
08/24/03
What may come as a surprise is that, among this illustrious cast, it is Crawford who stands out.
04/20/04
It's all very silly, the ultimate in Depression-era escapism: a piece of Hollywood magic that's impossibly romantic filled with people who are impossibly elegant, bantering and wisecracking constantly.
01/01/00
Less a movie than a series of vignettes starring some of the greatest names Hollywood and the stage have ever produced.
07/17/03
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