Greta Garbo (as Grusinskaya - the Dancer), John Barrymore (as The Baron Felix von Gaigern), Joan Crawford (as Flaemmchen - the Stenographer), Wallace...
This story is about the lavish Grand Hotel in Berlin, a place where "nothing ever happens." That statement proves to be false, however, as the story follows an intertwining cast of characters over the course of one tumultuous day.
Grusinskaya, a ballerina whose jewels are coveted by Baron von Geigern, a thief who fancies Flaemmchen, a stenographer and the mistress of Preysing, businessman boss of Kringelein, a terminally ill bookkeeper who is under the care of alcoholic physician Dr. Otternschlag.