William A. Drake - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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Arizona Bound (1941)

Assistant Director

Scotland Yard (1941)

Contract Writer

The Three Musketeers (1939)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women (1939)

Stanley and Livingstone (1939)

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Grand Hotel (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I Have A Rather Nice Figure

Grand Hotel (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I Have A Complaint

Biography

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Arizona Bound (1941)

Assistant Director

Writer (Feature Film)

Scotland Yard (1941)

Contract Writer

The Three Musketeers (1939)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women (1939)

Stanley and Livingstone (1939)

One More Spring (1935)

Thunder in the Night (1935)

Contr to Screenplay const

Marie Galante (1934)

Contr to Screenplay const

Goldie Gets Along (1933)

Strange Justice (1932)

Story and Screenplay

Grand Hotel (1932)

Life Events

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Grand Hotel (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I Have A Rather Nice Figure Textile magnate Preysing (Wallace Beery) is pleased that he's at last got sexy stenographer Flaemmchen (Joan Crawford) to himself but alarmed that his deal seems to be crashing, John Barrymore on the balcony advancing another plot, in MGM's all-star Grand Hotel, 1932.

Grand Hotel (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I Have A Complaint Epic take by director Edmund Goulding, at the front desk, mostly Kringelein (Lionel Barrymore) griping, meeting the Baron (brother John Barrymore), Dr. Otternschlag (Lewis Stone) and concierge (Charles Trowbridge), then Joan Crawford's entrance, in MGM's all-star Grand Hotel, 1932.

Grand Hotel (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Do I Look Like A Baron? Transition through the famous lobby shot, then the chiseling Baron (John Barrymore) at work on the new stenographer Flaemmchen (Joan Crawford), interrupted by pensioner Kringelein (Lionel Barrymore), in MGM's Grand Hotel, 1932.

Grand Hotel (1932) -- (Movie Clip) All The Best People Opening scene introducing many from the all-but unprecedented line-up of MGM stars, Jean Hersholt, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, John Barrymore, at the fictional hotel in Berlin, Garbo, Crawford and others yet to come, in Irving Thalberg's hit all-star experiment Grand Hotel, 1932.

Grand Hotel (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I Want To Be Alone... The dancer Grusinskaya (Greta Garbo, uttering the line she would never escape) wants to be alone, not realizing that the thieving Baron (John Barrymore) is with her all along, in this famous scene from director Edmund Goulding's Grand Hotel, 1932.

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