History Film / GrandHotel

* BittersweetEnding: The Baron is dead, and Grusinskaya's going to be alone. Kringelein is still going to die. But Preysing at least will face justice, and Flaemmchen and Kringelein will grab some happiness while they can. And Flaemmchen believes that with all Kringelein's money they can find a great doctor who can cure him.

Adapted from Vicki Baum's novel, this 1932 [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM]] film was directed by Edmund Goulding and featured an AllStarCast that included Creator/GretaGarbo, brothers {{Creator/John|Barrymore}} and Creator/LionelBarrymore, Creator/JoanCrawford, and Creator/WallaceBeery. It tells the intertwining stories of the various guests who check into Berlin's famous Grand Hotel (based on the RealLife Adlon Hotel):

Followed by a SpiritualSuccessor, ''Film/DinnerAtEight'', which not only featured a similar narrative structure but had several of the same actors playing similar parts. It was remade in TheForties as ''Weekend at the Waldorf'', starring Creator/LanaTurner. A musical adaptation went to Broadway in the late 80's and early 90's, later adapted by the Creator/TakarazukaRevue. Vicky Blum later wrote a sequel to the book, ''Hotel Berlin'', which was also adapted into a film, ''Film/HotelBerlin''.

* ContinuityNod: Pay close attention at the end and you will hear one of the desk clerks calling out rooms that have become vacant--the rooms that are being vacated by the movie's main characters. (160, 164, 166, 170, and 176.)

* MeaningfulName: Baron Felix Amadeus Benvenuto von Geigern, by his own admission, is a cheerful, charming man who has been awfully lucky all his life, getting into tough spots and out of them. Until his luck ran out. The meaning of his names, in order: "happy/lucky/successful", "love of God/love God", and "welcome".

** The police officer squashes Zinnowitz's complaint about [[spoiler:Preysing's arrest]] (that it could ruin Preysing's life, just because he defended himself from a hotel thief) by asserting that [[spoiler:"the deceased was a Baron"]] (implying that it meant he couldn't possibly be a thief. Which he ''was'', regardless of the events following his attempt to burgle Preysing.)

* AmbiguouslyBi: Otto Kringelein. He sings "The sleek young men/The slender girls/They please my eyes," in "At the Grand Hotel". He's quite affectionate to the Baron - a highlight from the Takarazuka production: the way Miya Rurika's Kringelein gently, almost tenderly, dabs the Baron (Tamaki Ryou)'s forehead with his handkerchief -, pays very little attention to the SexySecretary Flaemmchen, and at the end of "We'll Take a Glass Together" he leaps into the latter's arms (and being held aloft off the ground). While this ''can'' be chalked down to the Baron being "kind to [him] as no one ever was", it has not stopped the shippers.
* CrossCastRole: The Takarazuka productions have Raffaela played by ''otokoyaku'', actresses who usually play male roles.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:The Baron gets shot accidentally while struggling for Preysing's gun, instead of clobbered with a telephone.]]
* DyingDream: [[spoiler:The Baron's DeathSong, "Roses at the Station" involves him seeing his life flash before his eyes, and getting to the Berlin main train station to go to Vienna with Elizaveta, but unable to see her. (Most productions put Elizaveta in the same scene, frantically looking for the Baron.)]]
* MissedHimByThatMuch: The Encores production has Elizaveta and the Baron miss each other by mere ''centimeters'' on the staircase. [[spoiler:Of course, it's his DyingDream, but still.]]
* MortalWoundReveal: In the Encores production of TheMusical, [[spoiler:the Baron]] holds a bouquet of red roses for most of "Roses at the Station". Near the end, he drops the flowers, revealing the gunshot wound on his crisp white shirt.

* TimeShiftedActor: The Creator/TakarazukaRevue production of TheMusical has the young and adult Baron sharing the stage for "Roses at the Station".
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:The stage show implies Elizaveta kills herself after finding out about the Baron's death.]]

Followed by a SpiritualSuccessor, ''Film/DinnerAtEight'', which not only featured a similar narrative structure but had several of the same actors playing similar parts. It was remade in TheForties as ''Weekend at the Waldorf'', starring Lana Turner. A musical adaptation went to Broadway in the late 80's and early 90's, later adapted by the Creator/TakarazukaRevue.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Otto in the musical. He sings "The sleek young men/The slender girls/They please my eyes," in "At the Grand Hotel". He's quite affectionate to the Baron - a highlight from the Takarazuka production: the way Miya Rurika's Kringelein gently, almost tenderly, dabs the Baron (Tamaki Ryou)'s forehead with his handkerchief -, pays very little attention to the SexySecretary Flaemmchen, and at the end of "We'll Take a Glass Together" he leaps into the latter's arms (and being held aloft off the ground). While this ''can'' be chalked down to the Baron being "kind to [him] as no one ever was", it has not stopped the shippers.

* ContinuityNod: Pay close attention at the end and you will hear one of the desk clerks calling out rooms that have become vacant--the rooms that are being vacated by the movie's main characters. (160, 162, 164, 170, and 176.)

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* ContinuityNod: Pay close attention at the end and you will hear one of the desk clerks calling out rooms that have become vacant--the rooms that are being vacated by the movie's main characters.

!!This film and its musical adaptation provides examples of:

* AmbiguouslyBi: Otto in the musical. He sings "The sleek young men/The slender girls/They please my eyes," in "At the Grand Hotel". He's quite affectionate to the Baron - a highlight from the Takarazuka production: the way Miya Rurika's Kringelein gently, almost tenderly, dabs the Baron (Tamaki Ryou)'s forehead with his handkerchief -, pays very little attention to the SexySecretary Flaemmchen, and at the end of "We'll Take a Glass Together" he leaps into the latter's arms (and being held aloft off the ground). While this ''can'' be chalked down to the Baron being "kind to [him] as no one ever was", it has not stopped the shippers.

* DyingDream: [[spoiler:The Baron's DeathSong, "Roses at the Station" involves him seeing his life flash before his eyes, and getting to the Berlin main train station to go to Vienna with Elizaveta, but unable to see her. (Most productions put Elizaveta in the same scene, frantically looking for the Baron.)]]

* MissedHimByThatMuch: The Encores production has Elizaveta and the Baron miss each other by mere ''centimeters'' on the staircase. [[spoiler:Of course, it's his DyingDream, but still.]]
* MortalWoundReveal: In the Encores production of TheMusical, [[spoiler:the Baron]] holds a bouquet of red roses for most of "Roses at the Station". Near the end, he drops the flowers, revealing the gunshot wound on his crisp white shirt.

* SanitySlippageSong: James Snyder (Encores production) plays "Roses at the Station" this way. "I'm here, Elizaveta, at the station/Here with you, dear, at the station," and "Where are you? I can't see you," therefore become {{Madness Mantra}}s.

* TimeShiftedActor: The Creator/TakarazukaRevue production of TheMusical has the young and adult Baron sharing the stage for "Roses at the Station".
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:The stage show implies Elizaveta kills herself after finding out about the Baron's death.]]

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* TimeShiftedActor: The Theatre/TakarazukaRevue production of TheMusical has the young and adult Baron sharing the stage for "Roses at the Station".

Followed by a SpiritualSuccessor, ''Film/DinnerAtEight'', which not only featured a similar narrative structure but had several of the same actors playing similar parts. It was remade in TheForties as ''Weekend at the Waldorf'', starring Lana Turner. A musical adaptation went to Broadway in the late 80's and early 90's, later adapted by the Theatre/TakarazukaRevue.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Otto in the musical. He sings "The sleek young men/The slender girls/They please my eyes," in "At the Grand Hotel". He's quite affectionate to the Baron - a highlight from the Takarazuka production: the way Miya Rurika's Kringelein gently, almost tenderly, dabs the Baron (Tamaki Ryou)'s forehead with his handkerchief - pays very little attention to the SexySecretary Flaemmchen, and at the end of "We'll Take a Glass Together" he leaps into the latter's arms (and being held aloft off the ground). While this ''can'' be chalked down to the Baron being "kind to [him] as no one ever was", it has not stopped the shippers.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Otto in the musical. He sings "The sleek young men/The slender girls/They please my eyes," in "At the Grand Hotel". He's quite affectionate to the Baron, pays very little attention to the SexySecretary Flaemmchen, and at the end of "We'll Take a Glass Together" he leaps into the latter's arms (and being held aloft off the ground). While this ''can'' be chalked down to the Baron being "kind to [him] as no one ever was", it has not stopped the shippers.

* MeaningfulName: Baron Felix Amadeus Benvenuto von Gaigern, by his own admission, is a cheerful, charming man who has been awfully lucky all his life, getting into tough spots and out of them. Until his luck ran out. The meaning of his names, in order: "happy/lucky/successful", "love of God/love God", and "welcome".

* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: When the Baron, hiding in Grusinskaya's room in an attempt to steal her pearls, overhears her "in despair," his response is to disclose his presence and confess his feelings for her so she'll have something to hold on to.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:The Baron gets killed because he tried to rescue Flaemmchen from being raped by her BadBoss. Of course, he was only there because he wanted to steal Preysing's wallet, but ''still''.]]

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:The Theatre/TakarazukaRevue production implies Elizaveta kills herself after finding out about the Baron's death, by having them dance together in black and then in white again.]]

Followed by a SpiritualSuccessor, ''Film/DinnerAtEight'', which not only featured a similar narrative structure but had several of the same actors playing similar parts. It was remade in TheForties as ''Weekend at the Waldorf'', starring Lana Turner. A musical adaptation went to Broadway in the late 80's and early 90's, later adapted by the ''Theatre/TakarazukaRevue''.

Followed by a SpiritualSuccessor, ''Film/DinnerAtEight'', which not only featured a similar narrative structure but had several of the same actors playing similar parts. It was remade in TheForties as ''Weekend at the Waldorf'', starring Lana Turner. A musical adaptation went to Broadway in the late 80's and early 90's.

!!This film provides examples of:

%% * TheVonTropeFamily: Baron von Geigern, who has fallen on hard times.

Adapted from Vicki Baum's novel, this 1932 [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM]] film was directed by Edmund Goulding and featured an AllStarCast that included Creator/GretaGarbo, Creator/JohnBarrymore, Creator/JoanCrawford, Creator/WallaceBeery, and Creator/LionelBarrymore. It tells the intertwining stories of the various guests who check into Berlin's famous Grand Hotel (based on the RealLife Adlon Hotel):

* AndTheAdventureContinues: A young married couple check in to the hotel at the end, indicating that more people wlll come and have adventures at the Grand Hotel.

* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Shortly after the Baron dies, the major-domo of the hotel (Jean Hersholt) finds out that his wife has delivered a baby boy.

* HaveAGayOldTime: The Baron and Kringelein agree that the best life is "a short life and a gay one".

* JerkAss: Preysing, he's a perverted [[BadBoss tyrant]] and a cheat.

* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: When the Baron overhears Grusinskaya "in despair," his response is to disclose his presence and confess his feelings for her so she'll have something to hold on to.

* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Grusinskaya's ballet tour is drawing very poor audiences. After she blows off a performance, she notices that no one missed her.

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