Greta Garbo, Grand Hotel, 1932
“My admiration for her is complete, she is every inch an artist, pure and unspoiled. To watch her face, tragic and vivacious by turns, and her graceful flowing movements, was for me a great experience.
I feel as though I ought to be deeply thankful for having experienced the same piece of good fortune twice. When I sat in the theatre and saw my work first unfold on the New York stage, done as I had dreamed it, I said to myself, ‘Here is the supreme thrill of happiness at last.’ Then, when I witnessed the film opening, with Garbo playing the role of the great dancer after my own heart, I felt that thrill for a second time.
No, I did not meet Miss Garbo. One day, before Grand Hotel had gone into production, as I was walking on the Metro lot I saw a figure in the distance which I recognized to be hers, evidently bound for the Mata Hari set. As soon as she realized that I was coming toward her she scurried around the corner of one of the lot streets, and was gone."
-Vicky Baum, author of Grand Hotel, Screenland, Aug. 1932
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Edmund Goulding‘S GRAND HOTEL, where nothing ever happens, premiered in New York City #OnThisDay in 1932.
You can watch it in 35MM at #TCMFF next week!
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Art Nouveau stained glass ceiling, Grand Hotel, Mexico City, MEXICO
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‘Sizing him up!’
Original artist: Walter Molino
Original source: ‘Grand Hotel’ magazine (1963)
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