Checking Out: Grand Hotel
03/02/2004
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.
Movie Information
Tom Kane
as Narrator (voice)
Sydney Guilaroff
as Self - Key MGM Hair Designer (archive footage)
J.J. Cohn
as Self - MGM Executive (archive footage) (as Joseph J. Cohn)
Joan Crawford
as Self / Flaemmchen (archive footage)
Greta Garbo
as Self / Various roles (archive footage)
John Barrymore
as Self / Various roles (archive footage)
Lionel Barrymore
as Self / Various roles (archive footage)
Wallace Beery
as Self / Various roles (archive footage)
Lew Ayres
as Self (archive footage)
Paul Bern
as Self (archive footage)
William H. Daniels
as Self (archive footage)
Marion Davies
as (archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich
as Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Durante
as (archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
as Self (archive footage)
Clark Gable
as Self (archive footage)
Cedric Gibbons
as Self (archive footage)
Edmund Goulding
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Harlow
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Hersholt
as Self (archive footage)
Walter Huston
as Self (archive footage)
Lola Lane
as Self (archive footage)
Louis B. Mayer
as Self (archive footage)
Robert Montgomery
as Self (archive footage)
Conrad Nagel
as Self (archive footage)
Maureen O'Sullivan
as Self (archive footage)
Edward G. Robinson
as Self (archive footage)
Norma Shearer
as Self (archive footage)
Lewis Stone
as Self (archive footage)
Irving Thalberg
as Self (archive footage)
