Grusinskaya is a famous ballet dancer who is performing at a theater in Berlin. She stays at the Grand Hotel and is visited by Baron von Gaigern, an adventurer who is secretly planning to steal her jewels. The Baron finds Grusinskaya feeling depressed about her career and hides when she enters her room. Seeing that she is considering suicide, he reveals himself and claims to be an admirer. They eventually fall in love. Kringelein, a bookkeeper with an incurable disease, is also staying at the hotel and falls in love with Flaemmchen, a stenographer who desires wealth. Preysing, an industrialist, comes to the hotel to negotiate a business deal but is unsuccessful. He becomes attracted to Flaemmchen and she agrees to have an affair with him in exchange for money. The Baron tells Grusinskaya that he will meet her after she leaves the hotel and they can start a new life together. In need of money, he tries to rob Preysing's apartment but is caught and killed by Preysing. Kringelein keeps Flaemmchen away from the scene and she agrees to go away with Kringelein to spend the rest of his days traveling and searching for a cure for his disease. Grusinskaya leaves the hotel happily planning her new life with the Baron, unaware that he is dead.


Vintage magazines

Photoplay , April 1932
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Photoplay , July 1932
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Film programs

Das neue Filmprogramm
Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 2312

Books with substantial mentioning of Grand Hotel

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Joel Finler
All-Time Box-Office Hits
New York City, 1985

Ann Lloyd (ed.)
Movies of the Thirties
London, 1983

Stanley Hochman (editor)
From Quasimodo to Scarlett O'Hara, A National Board of Review Anthology 1920 - 1940
New York, 1982

Michael Conway, Dion McGregor and Mark Ricci
The Films of Greta Garbo
Secaucus, New Jersey, 1973

David Zinman
50 Classic Motion Pictures, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
New York, 1970

Lawrence J. Quirk
The Films of Joan Crawford
New York, 1968