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Adapted from Vicki Baum's novel, this 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.
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* [[Academy Award]]: ''[[Grand Hotel]]'' is the only film ever to win Best Picture without being even nominated for any other Oscars.
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* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: Inverted; While some think that Greta Garbo's "I want to be alone" line doesn't exist, it not only exists but it is in this film.
** The confusion has probably arisen from a quote Garbo made herself in [[Real Life]] where she claimed that she never said that she wanted to be alone, but rather, that she wanted to be ''let'' alone.
* [[Book Ends]]: Opens and closes with the inaccurate observations of Dr. Otternschlag.
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