Video: 'Grand Hotel' trailer

(Tuesday, April 12, 1932) — Grand Hotel , a film about guests at a posh Berlin hotel who struggle through scandal and heartache, premiered tonight at the Astor in New York.

Directed by Edmund Goulding, the film stars Greta “I want to be alone” Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt.

The film is the only one to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without it or its participants being nominated in any other category.