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Winner of the Oscar® for Best Picture in 1932, GRAND HOTEL is the apotheosis of MGM's carefully cultivated prestige, meticulously crafted glamour and impressive bevy of bankable stars, with Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore playing characters whose personal dramas intersect at Berlin's most luxurious hotel. Guided then by the brilliant Irving Thalberg, the studio was known for having superb talent behind and in front of the camera, and the film's real star is the Art Deco hotel sets designed by the legendary art director Cedric Gibbons. DIR Edmund Goulding; SCR Béla Balázs, Edgar Allan Woolf, William A. Drake, from Drake’s play and the novel "Menschen im Hotel" by Vicki Baum; PROD Irving Thalberg. U.S., 1932, b&w, 112 min. NOT RATED