Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable: GRAND HOTEL 1932 Premiere
Among those in attendance at the 1932 premiere of Grand Hotel were the film’s director, Edmund Goulding, Lew Ayres and Lola Lane, Lilyan Tashman and Edmund Lowe (married, though both were into same-sex liaisons), the recently deceased Anita Page, Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Jean Hersholt, William Haines, Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Joan Crawford, and Constance Bennett and the marquis Henri de la Falaise.
Also, Norma Shearer, Conrad Nagel, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels, Wallace Beery, MGM honcho Louis B. Mayer, Robert Montgomery, Walter Huston, Ben-Hur director Fred Niblo, Lewis Stone, Marlene Dietrich and Rudolf Sieber, Anna Q. Nilsson, and Clark Gable.
Grand Hotel was the 1931-32 best picture Academy Award winner. It has the distinction of being the sole best picture winner without a single nomination in any other category. (There were fewer categories then.)
In the cast: In addition to the aforementioned Crawford, Beery, Stone, Hersholt, and Barrymore, Grand Hotel starred Greta Garbo and John Barrymore.
Clip posted by SergioOliver.
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That is so cool. I wonder how many people today recognize thos big movie stars of yore. Or if anyone will remember Brad Pitt and Madonna 50 years from now.