- Country: USA
- Genres: Documentary, Short
- Release: 2004-02-03
- Director: Peter Fitzgerald
- Writers: N/A
- Language: English
- Stars: Tom Kane (II)
- Runtime: 12 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Veamos qué tal es: Gran Hotel (Spain) , Checking Out: Grand Hotel , Checking Out: Grand Hotel (United States of America)
- Plot: The making of the Oscar-winning classic, "Grand Hotel" was rife with blazing egos and star behavior unlike anything else in Hollywood history. Never before had there existed an all-star, ensemble cast on film, and none with so many heavyweights as MGM could provide. Concieved by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, (who brainstormed the notion of an ensemble cast for the film) the film boasted names like Garbo, Crawford, Beery and two Barrymores, went on have its celebrated premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and won the Academy Award for best picture. Thus, the ensemble cast film became a staple for the studio, who went on to produce "Dinner at Eight" and several others in the ensuing years.
- IMDB:tt0989800
Checking Out: Grand Hotel Cast · · · ALL
Tom Kane
(II)
Narrator (voice)
Sydney Guilaroff
(1907–1997)
Self - Key MGM Hair Designer (archive footage)
J.J. Cohn
Self - MGM Executive (archive footage) (as Joseph J. Cohn)
Joan Crawford
(I)
(1905–1977)
Self / Flaemmchen (archive footage)
Greta Garbo
(1905–1990)
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
John Barrymore
(I)
(1882–1942)
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
Lionel Barrymore
(1878–1954)
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
Wallace Beery
(1885–1949)
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
Lew Ayres
(1908–1996)
Self (archive footage)
Paul Bern
Self (archive footage)
William H. Daniels
Self (archive footage)
Marion Davies
(archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich
(1901–1992)
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Durante
(archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Clark Gable
(I)
(1901–1960)
Self (archive footage)
Cedric Gibbons
Self (archive footage)
Edmund Goulding
(1891–1959)
Self (archive footage)
Jean Harlow
Self (archive footage)
Jean Hersholt
(1886–1956)
Self (archive footage)
Walter Huston
Self (archive footage)
Lola Lane
Self (archive footage)
Louis B. Mayer
Self (archive footage)
Robert Montgomery
Self (archive footage)
Conrad Nagel
Self (archive footage)