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Line 4: {{quote\|"Grand Hotel... always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens."\|'''Dr. Otternschlag'''}} Adapted from Vicki Baum's novel, ~~this~~'''''Grand Hotel''''' is a 1932 [[Metro Goldwyn Mayer]] film, directed by Edmund Goulding and featuring an all-star cast including Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, [[Joan Crawford]], Wallace Beery, and Lionel Barrymore, won the [[Academy Award\|Oscar]] for Best Picture. It tells the intertwining stories of the various guests who check into Berlin's famous Grand Hotel (based on the [[Real Life]] Adlon Hotel). Their stories are observed by Dr. Otternschlag (Lewis Stone), who's too drunk to notice that stuff does happen in the Grand Hotel. ''Grand Hotel'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2007. {{tropelist}}▼ ▲{{tropelist}} * [[Academy Award]]: ''[[Grand Hotel]]'' is the only film ever to win Best Picture without being even nominated for any other Oscars. * [[Book Ends]]: Opens and closes with the inaccurate observations of Dr. Otternschlag. * [[Fake Nationality]]: The German characters are played by American actors. * [[Gentleman Thief]]: "Baron" Felix von Gaigern * [[Ironic Echo]]: The "nothing ever happens" line. Line 20: * [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Dr. Otternschlag. * [[Weimar Republic]] * [[What Could Have Been]]: [[Buster Keaton]] was up for the Lionel Barrymore part. Garbo wanted her old boyfriend John Gilbert, a silent star whose career (like Keaton's) was in decline, to play the Baron. * [[White Dwarf Starlet]]: Grusinskaya. * [[Your Days Are Numbered]]: Otto Kringelein has a terminal illness, so he spends all his money to live the end of his life in luxury. {{reflist}} {{Academy Award Best Picture}} [[Category:National Film Registry]] [[Category:Films of the 1930s]] [[Category:Academy Award]] [[Category:Grand Hotel]] [[Category:Films Based on Novels]] [[Category:Film]]