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Garbo the Incomparable: Grand Hotel

BBC One
on BBC One London

A season of feature films with Hollywood's greatest star in her most famous roles.
Starring Greta Garbo
with John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore

Garbo is surrounded by a galaxy of famous stars in this stylish Academy Award-winning extravaganza set amidst the opulent splendour of Berlin's most fashionable hotel, in which director Edmund Goulding lovingly records the antics and activities of the hotel's more exotic guests, against a magnificent pot-pourri of contemporary pop songs and popular classics.
(The alluring chemistry of Garbo: page 63)

Contributors

Screenplay:
William A. Drake
Based on a story by:
Vicki Baum
Director:
Edmund Goulding
Grusinskaya:
Greta Garbo
Baron von Gaigern:
John Barrymore
Flaemmchen:
Joan Crawford
Preysing:
Wallace Beery
Otto Kringelein:
Lionel Barrymore
Dr Otternschlag:
Lewis Stone
Senf:
Jean Hersholt
Source: Radio Times

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