32 Days til Oscar. Have you seen "Grand Hotel"?
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 3:00PM
NATHANIEL R in Best Picture, Grand Hotel, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Oscars (30s)

How will you spend those days? Since 32 is the magic number today, please spare a thought for the wildly undervalued Best Picture winner of 1932, Grand Hotel.

It only won a single Oscar, but that's all it was nominated for. There were no supporting acting categories just yet, as honors were given only to stars (same as now, basically, only with category fraud as the cause instead of no category at all) but, had there been, Joan Crawford would have certainly been deserving. She gives an unusually warm performance (for her) in this picture. 

This is also the film that gave us the image of Greta Garbo that stuck, as a solemn "I want to be alone" diva. More gorgeousity and a few gifs after the jump if you're so inclined...

a promo shot of Joan. She's not this 'bow down!' diva-like in the movie

 

Joan and Greta aren't talking to each other in those two gifs but it's catty fun to imagine that they were, isn't it?

 

 

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