Directed by Edmund GouldingStarring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt, Robert McWade, Purnell Pratt, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Rafaela Ottiano, Morgan Wallace, Tully Marshall, Frank Conroy, Murray Kinnell, and Edwin Maxwell
A star-studded affair of the highest order, Grand Hotel featured all sorts of big stars interacting in a European hotel. Mixing comedy and drama, it is a nice movie to watch now and again, if only to see some of the biggest stars of the early 1930s working together. It also holds the somewhat dubious distinction of being the only Best Picture winner to not recieve any other nominations. Several from the cast would reunite one year later for Dinner at Eight, another film considered a classic, but which did not recieve the same accolades from the Academy. This a movie that's more about the spectacle than the actual content, but that spectacle isn't half bad.
Other nominees: Arrowsmith (John Ford), Bad Girl (Frank Borzage), The Champ (King Vidor), Five Star Final (Mervyn LeRoy), One Hour with You (Ernst Lubitsch and George Cukor), Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg), and The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
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