Grand Hotel plot
"Thank the stars for a great entertainment!"
The story is about a plush hotel in Berlin 'where nothing ever happens'. Grusinskaya (Garbo) is a lonely Russian ballerina with suicidal tendencies, Felix von Geigern (Barrymore) is her lover who is actually a jewel thief. Flaemmchen (Crawford) is a shorthand typist who deliberately uses her sex appeal to obtain a minimum of economic security in a man's world. Otto (Barrymore) is a sickly bookkeeper who has embezzled some money for one last chance to indulge, while Preysing (Beery) is a manufacturer desperate to pull off a big blow.