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Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004)
Directed by Peter Fitzgerald
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.
Length 12 minutes
Actors
Tom Kane | Sydney Guilaroff | J.J. Cohn | Joan Crawford | Greta Garbo | John Barrymore | Lionel Barrymore | Wallace Beery | Lew Ayres | Paul Bern | William H. Daniels | Marion Davies | Marlene Dietrich | Jimmy Durante | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | Clark Gable | Cedric Gibbons | Edmund Goulding | Jean Harlow | Jean Hersholt | Walter Huston | Lola Lane | Louis B. Mayer | Robert Montgomery | Conrad Nagel | Maureen O'Sullivan | Edward G. Robinson | Norma Shearer | Lewis Stone | Irving Thalberg