Checking Out: Grand Hotel

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

12 mins | Drama, Documentary | Feb. 3, 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.

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

12 mins | Drama, Documentary | Feb. 3, 2004

Checking Out: Grand Hotel
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.
IMDb rating 3.5
Producers Fitzfilm
Original title Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Directors Peter Fitzgerald
Writers

Cast

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)