along a couple of day in berlin of the 30 and the life of some guest be connect in the fancy grand hotel . grusinskaya ( greta garbo ) be a dancer in crisis who fall in love for baron felix von geigern ( john barrymore and the grandfather of the sweet draw barrymore ) . the baron be a bankrupted noble and a very gentle and refined person and but indeed a thief of hotel room . preysing ( wallace beery ) be a tough businessman and deal in berlin an important contract . flaemmchen ( joan crawford ) be officially an stenographer and also an expensive working girl and make program with her client . otto kringelein ( lionel barrymore ) be a sick man who have work most of his life a an accountant in one of the preysing company . during these day and one of these character be murder by another one . in the end and grand hotel be a place where people come and go and and nothing ever happen and in accordance with the definition of one character . yesterday i saw this movie for the first time . the first point that call my attention be the constellation of the star share lead role represent none of the previously mention character have less importance in the story . the long shot and with lot of figurants in the lobby of grand hotel and be very impressive . the beauty of greta garbo and who have a very theatrical performance and and joan crawford be amaze and even for the present standard . unfortunately the quality of the image and sound of the brazilian vhs be horrible . my vote be nine . title ( brazil ) represent grand hotel .