Joan Barclay

Joan Barclay

  • Born: 1914-8-31
  • Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m)
  • Extended Reading
    • Lavonne 2022-01-12 08:01:03

      "The Grand Hotel": The first masterpiece of the "All-Star Movie"

      In the famous "Grand Hotel", the hysterical ballerina played by Greta Garbo said: I want to be alone. So this sentence became the symbol of Greta Garbo. Everyone knows that the mysterious, glamorous, mature, fragile, sexy and neurotic woman needs to be alone at all times. "The Grand Hotel", which...

    • Sylvester 2022-01-12 08:01:03

      Money is the bastard

      Although there are many characters on the stage, there are still down-and-out nobles and actresses as the main line to connect the whole story. And the whole story is not about what life is like, in my opinion, it is just talking about how bad money is. Because of the money, the little staff had...

    • Cullen 2022-03-25 09:01:15

      The film begins with the busy wiring, the baggage room foreman anxiously inquires about the wife who is expecting to give birth, and at the end, the foreman received good news, and within a short waiting time, the grand hotel staged the interlaced lives of the five protagonists, and the baron connected the rest. He evokes the fervent love of frustrated dancers, revives lost patients, reaps love, and puts a failed bad boss in jail.

    • Easton 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      The ending is not Hollywood, not bad.

    Grand Hotel quotes

    • Otto Kringelein: Mr. Preysing, I am not taking orders from you here.

      Preysing: What is this insolence? Please go away.

      Otto Kringelein: You think you have free license to be insulting? Believe me, you have not. You think you're superior, but you're quite an ordinary man. Even if you did marry money, and people like me have got to slave for you for 320 marks a month!

      Preysing: Will you go away, please! You are annoying!

      Flaemmchen: Mr. Preysing, please!

      Otto Kringelein: You don't like to see me enjoying myself. When a man's working himself to death, that's what he's paid for. You don't care if a man can live on his wages or not.

      Preysing: You have a very regular scale of wages, and there's the sick fund for you.

      Otto Kringelein: [sarcastically] Oh, what a scale, and what a fund. When I was sick for four weeks, you wrote me a letter, telling me I'd be discharged if I was sick any longer. Did you write me that letter, or did you not?

      Preysing: I have no idea of the letters that I write, Mr. Kringelein. I know that you're here in the Grand Hotel, living like a lord. You are probably an embezzler.

      Otto Kringelein: [shocked] An embezzler?

      Preysing: Yes, an embezzler!

      Otto Kringelein: You will take that back, right here in the presence of this young lady! Who do you think you're talking to? You think I'm dirt? Well, if I'm dirt, you're a lot dirtier, Mr. Industrial Magnate Preysing!

      Preysing: You're discharged! Get out!

      Flaemmchen: You can't do that to him...

      Preysing: Oh, I don't know the man. I don't know what he wants. I never saw him before.

      Otto Kringelein: I know you! I've kept your books for you and I know all about you! If one of your employees was half as stupid in a small way as you are in a big way...

      Preysing: [lunges for Kringelein] What do you mean

      [tries to strangle him. When several people try to break them up, he finally lets go]

      Preysing: You're discharged! You're discharged, you hear?

      Otto Kringelein: Wait! You can't discharge me. I am my own master for the first time in my life. You can't discharge me. I'm sick. I'm going to die, you understand? I'm going to die, and nobady can do anything to me anymore. Nothing can happen to me anymore. Before I can be discharged, I'll be dead!

      [laughs proudly]

    • Baron Felix von Geigern: [looking down from the sixth-floor balcony over the front desk] You know, I've often wondered what'd happen to that old porter if somebody jumped on him from here.

      Flaemmchen: I'm sure I don't know. Why don't you try it and find out?