GRAND HOTEL

Celebrating 100 years of Art Deco
SUN JUN 01, 2.30pm
Includes an introduction by the Art Deco Society and a Rothwell Distillery Gin Cocktail.
Dressing in 1930’s style is highly encouraged with a prize for best dressed!

Grand Hotel is considered an exemplar of Art Deco style meeting Hollywood glamour. The film brings together some of the biggest stars of the Hollywood Golden Age: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, and Wallace Berry. Starring as guests at the stylish Grand Hotel in Berlin, this episodic film explores how setting and décor can evoke adventure and romance for the restless protagonists.

At an opulent Berlin hotel between the wars, the once-wealthy Baron Felix von Gaigern supports himself as a thief and gambler. In this lavish adaptation of the successful Broadway play, the baron romances one of his marks, the aging ballerina Grusinskaya, and teams with dying accountant Otto Kringelein against his former boss, crooked industrialist Preysing, and his ambitious stenographer, Flaemmchen.