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.

Documentary Drama

Tom Kane

(Narrator (voice))

Sydney Guilaroff

(Self - Key MGM Hair Designer (archive footage))

J.J. Cohn

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

Joan Crawford

(Self / Flaemmchen (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 / Various roles (archive footage))

Lew Ayres

(Self (archive footage))

Paul Bern

(Self (archive footage))

William H. Daniels

(Self (archive footage))

Marion Davies

((archive footage))

Marlene Dietrich

(Self (archive footage))

Jimmy Durante

((archive footage))

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

(Self (archive footage))

Clark Gable

(Self (archive footage))

Cedric Gibbons

(Self (archive footage))

Edmund Goulding

(Self (archive footage))

Jean Harlow

(Self (archive footage))

Jean Hersholt

(Self (archive footage))

Walter Huston

(Self (archive footage))

Lola Lane

(Self (archive footage))

Louis B. Mayer

(Self (archive footage))

Robert Montgomery

(Self (archive footage))

Conrad Nagel

(Self (archive footage))

Maureen O'Sullivan

(Self (archive footage))

Edward G. Robinson

(Self (archive footage))

Norma Shearer

(Self (archive footage))

Lewis Stone

(Self (archive footage))

Irving Thalberg

(Self (archive footage))