While Greta Garbo's performance has been criticised for being over-the-top (which is an understandable and valid criticism), again to me there is one actor who overdoes it much more, and pretty painfully too, and that is Wallace Beery. It does run a little too long and inevitably for a film adapted from a stage play there are parts that creak whether in pacing or drama (which was not unexpected seeing as it was always a potential trap that numerous early films adapted from stage plays fell into). 'Grand Hotel' is not quite a masterpiece, at least to me. Known as the film to win Best Picture but receiving no other Oscar nominations and as the first all-star film to many, 'Grand Hotel' still holds up as very impressive with a huge amount to admire 85 years later. Reviewed by TheLittleSongbird 8 / 10 Epitomising Grand Hollywood Meanwhile, the Baron also steals the heart of Preysing's mistress, Flaemmchen, but she doesn't end up with either one of them in the end.-Gary Jackson Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats Kringelein, one of his company's lowly bookkeepers but it is the terminally ill Kringelein who holds all the cards in the end. The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls. Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr.
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