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Checking Out: Grand Hotel

Feb 3, 2004

0h 12m

★ 7.0

Overview

Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. This short documentary takes a look at the making of the classic film.

Genres

Documentary

Drama

Production Companies

Fitzfilm

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

Tom Kane

Self - Key MGM Hair Designer (archive footage)

Sydney Guilaroff

Self - MGM Executive (archive footage) (as Joseph J. Cohn)

J.J. Cohn

Self / Flaemmchen (archive footage)

Joan Crawford

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Greta Garbo

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

John Barrymore

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Lionel Barrymore

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Wallace Beery

Self (archive footage)

Lew Ayres

Self (archive footage)

Paul Bern

Self (archive footage)

William H. Daniels

(archive footage)

Marion Davies

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