You like Short Cuts and Magnolia? Then take a look at Grand Hotel, the 1932 great-granddaddy of multi-plotline movies, its stagey theatrics excused by MGM star-power: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John and Lionel Barrymore...
Set in a plush Berlin hotel, it sees the fates of guests and staff members intersecting in melodramatic fashion. This is Golden Era Hollywood-studio style at its most opulent. It hasn't aged the best, but you do get to hear Garbo say, "I vahnt to be alone" for the first time ever.
DVD Extras:
An okay Making Of, a trailer, fawning studio publicity material and Nothing Ever Happens, a contemporary musical spoof of Grand Hotel, made by MGM itself.
