Checking Out: Grand Hotel 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.

Cast

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