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Grand Hotel

1932
United States
feature film - Drama / Romance
112 min.
no shooting in Berlin / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: Greta Garbo (Grusinskaya - the Dancer); John Barrymore (The Baron); Joan Crawford (Flaemmchen - the Stenographer); Wallace Beery (General Director Preysing); Lionel Barrymore (Otto Kringelein); Lewis Stone (Doctor Otternschlag); Jean Hersholt (Senf - the Porter); Robert McWade (Meierheim); Purnell Pratt (Zinnowitz); Ferdinand Gottschalk (Pimenov); Rafaela Ottiano (Suzette); Morgan Wallace (Chauffeur); Tully Marshall (Gerstenkorn); Frank Conroy (Rohna); Murray Kinnell (Schweimann); Edwin Maxwell (Dr. Waitz)

Direction

Director: Edmund Goulding

Assistant director: Charles Dorian

Writing

Screenplay: William A. Drake; Béla Balázs

Based on: Vicki Baum (Novel »Menschen im Hotel«); William A. Drake (play)

Camera & Light

Director of photography: William H. Daniels

Assistant camera / focus puller: William Riley; Albert Scheving

2nd Camera unit: A. Lindsley Lane

Still photographer: Fred Archer; Milton Brown

Decor

Make-up artist: Cecil Holland

Costume design: Adrian

Wardrobe: Eugene Joseff (jeweller)

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Blanche Sewell

Sound: Karl Zint; Douglas Shearer

Sound assistant: Anstruther MacDonald

Music

Music: Charles Maxwell; William Axt

Production

Producer: Irving Thalberg

Companies

Production company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)