A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
16 June 1893, San Bernardino, California, USA
13 April 1864, Nevada City, California, USA
12 July 1886, Copenhagen, Denmark
23 March 1906, San Antonio, Texas, USA
1 April 1885, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
9 February 1886, Dublin, Ireland
16 October 1881, England, UK
20 March 1891, Feltham, Middlesex, England, UK
20 January 1896, New York City, New York, USA
July 10, 1912 in San Francisco, California, USA
January 28, 1886 in Wichita, Kansas, USA
18 July 1894, New York, USA
18 September 1905, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
August 7, 1883 in Dessau, Germany
9 April 1900, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
22 November 1897, London, England, UK
24 July 1889, London, England, UK
28 April 1878, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
December 27, 1877 in Copenhagen, Denmark
31 August 1914, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
August 8, 1892 in Eureka, California, USA
28 February 1858, London, England, UK
May 16, 1883 in Hertfordshire, England, UK
14 October 1890, Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK
4 March 1888, Venice, Italy
April 16, 1882 in London, England, UK
20 October 1885, Bethel, Illinois, USA
15 May 1893, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
25 January 1872, Buffalo, New York, USA
26 July 1881, Lompoc, California, USA
June 04, 2015
A tremendously sturdy, thoroughly unimaginative, and massively entrancing sample of the early-'30s Hollywood machine doing everything exactly right.
January 29, 2008
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.
December 12, 2006
Less effective as a movie than as a dazzling parade of star iconography.
February 17, 2015
Each and every performer in the screened "Grand Hotel" does a remarkable piece of work. To us, Garbo is the supreme of magnificence.
June 24, 2006
The Nashville of its day, Grand Hotel's reputation has outgrown its actual quality
February 16, 2013
This is Golden Era Hollywood-studio style at its most opulent.
February 27, 2012
How thoroughly does Joan Crawford own Grand Hotel? She makes Greta Garbo superfluous.
January 13, 2014
The star-filled melodrama that is Grand Hotel became a blueprint for almost every glossy Hollywood soap opera that followed it.
March 24, 2014
The camera movements and production values are elaborate and intriguing and engaging. There is a sense of activity, of bustle in every frame.
May 09, 2008
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.
February 17, 2009
As it is, the hotel is well filled.
May 20, 2003
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.
