Checking Out: Grand Hotel

12m

Documentary Drama

7

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.

Cast

Narrator (voice)

Sydney Guilaroff

Self - Key MGM Hair Designer (archive footage)

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

Self / Flaemmchen (archive footage)

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Lionel Barrymore

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

William H. Daniels

Self (archive footage)

(archive footage)

Marlene Dietrich

Self (archive footage)

(archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Edmund Goulding

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Robert Montgomery

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Maureen O'Sullivan

Self (archive footage)

Edward G. Robinson

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Irving Thalberg

Self (archive footage)

Crew

Peter Fitzgerald