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Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004)
Video | 12 min | Documentary, Short

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Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004)

Video | 12 min | Documentary, Short

The making of the Oscar-winning classic, "Grand Hotel" was rife with blazing egos and star behavior unlike anything else in Hollywood history. Never before had there existed an all-star, ensemble cast on film, and none with so many ...See moreThe making of the Oscar-winning classic, "Grand Hotel" was rife with blazing egos and star behavior unlike anything else in Hollywood history. Never before had there existed an all-star, ensemble cast on film, and none with so many heavyweights as MGM could provide. Concieved by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, (who brainstormed the notion of an ensemble cast for the film) the film boasted names like Garbo, Crawford, Beery and two Barrymores, went on have its celebrated premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and won the Academy Award for best picture. Thus, the ensemble cast film became a staple for the studio, who went on to produce "Dinner at Eight" and several others in the ensuing years. Written by Peter Fitzgerald See less

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31 cast members

Name	Known for
Tom Kane Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Maureen O'Sullivan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Thin Man (1934)
Sydney Guilaroff Self - Key MGM Hair Designer (archive footage) Self - Key MGM Hair Designer (archive footage) See fewer	North by Northwest (1959)
J.J. Cohn Self - MGM Executive (archive footage) (as Joseph J. Cohn) Self - MGM Executive (archive footage) (as Joseph J. Cohn) See fewer	1925 Studio Tour (1925)
Lew Ayres Self - At the premiere (archive footage) Self - At the premiere (archive footage) See fewer	Holiday (1938)
John Barrymore Self / Various roles (archive footage) Self / Various roles (archive footage) See fewer	Twentieth Century (1934)
Lionel Barrymore Self / Various roles (archive footage) Self / Various roles (archive footage) See fewer	You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Wallace Beery Self / Various (archive footage) Self / Various (archive footage) See fewer	A Date with Judy (1948)
Paul Bern Self - At the premiere (archive footage) Self - At the premiere (archive footage) See fewer	The Beloved Rogue (1927)
Joan Crawford Self / Flaemmchen (archive footage) Self / Flaemmchen (archive footage) See fewer	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
William H. Daniels Self - Director of Photography (archive footage) Self - Director of Photography (archive footage) See fewer	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Marion Davies Blondie McClune (archive footage) Blondie McClune (archive footage) See fewer	Little Old New York (1923)
Marlene Dietrich Self - At the premiere (archive footage) Self - At the premiere (archive footage) See fewer	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Jimmy Durante Jimmy (archive footage) Jimmy (archive footage) See fewer	It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Self - At the premiere (archive footage) Self - At the premiere (archive footage) See fewer	Little Caesar (1931)
Clark Gable Self - At the premiere (archive footage) Self - At the premiere (archive footage) See fewer	It Happened One Night (1934)
Greta Garbo Self / Various Roles (archive footage) Self / Various Roles (archive footage) See fewer	Ninotchka (1939)
Cedric Gibbons Self - Art Director (archive footage) Self - Art Director (archive footage) See fewer	Gaslight (1944)
Edmund Goulding Self - At the premiere (archive footage) Self - At the premiere (archive footage) See fewer	Grand Hotel (I) (1932)
Jean Harlow Self - At the premiere (archive footage) Self - At the premiere (archive footage) See fewer	China Seas (1935)
Jean Hersholt Self - At the premiere (archive footage) Self - At the premiere (archive footage) See fewer	Greed (1924)
Walter Huston Self - At the premiere (archive footage) Self - At the premiere (archive footage) See fewer	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Lola Lane Self - At the premiere (archive footage) Self - At the premiere (archive footage) See fewer	The Big Fight (1930)
Louis B. Mayer Self - At the premiere (archive footage) Self - At the premiere (archive footage) See fewer	The Great Secret (1917)
Robert Montgomery Self - At the premiere (archive footage) Self - At the premiere (archive footage) See fewer	Night Must Fall (1937)
Conrad Nagel Self - At the premiere (archive footage) Self - At the premiere (archive footage) See fewer	The Ship from Shanghai (1930)
Edward G. Robinson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Double Indemnity (1944)
Norma Shearer Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Divorcee (1930)
Lewis Stone Self - At the premiere (archive footage) Self - At the premiere (archive footage) See fewer	The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
Irving Thalberg Self - Producer (archive footage) Self - Producer (archive footage) See fewer	The Tower of Lies (1925)
Jackie Cooper Dink (archive footage) (uncredited) Dink (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Superman (1978)