A West German feature film titledMenschen im Hotel (1959)was also directed by Gottfried Reinhardt.Later, it was adapted into two Broadway stage musicals:At the Grand(1958), set in 1950s Rome; the Broadway-bound play was a brief hit in some major cities, but never reached New York and Broadway; it featured musical diva Joan Deiner as the ballerina, and aging actor Paul Muni (in a modified Lionel Barrymore role)Grand Hotel: The Musical,opening in mid-November of 1989; it ran for over 1,000 performances on Broadway and won five Tony Awards (from 12 nominations); set in Berlin in 1928, it starred Liliane Montevecchi (in the Greta Garbo role) (later played by Cyd Charisse), and David Carroll (in the John Barrymore role) (later played by John Schneider)Plot SynopsisDuring the opening credits, each of the main performers received a separate screen, identifying their cast names:GRETA GARBO as GRUSINSKAYA.Freder first speaks to his father""s assistant Josaphat (Theodor Loos) about his witnessing of the machine explosion, intent on telling his engrossed father about it." She had become a "mommy," and had a son (out of wedlock) named Jason White (Tristan Lake Leabu), was in a "prolonged engagement" with Perry White""s nephew Richard White (James Marsden), and was touchy about questions of marriage.He wears a dark priestly robe and has a distinctive, jagged widow""s peak on his forehead.Werdegast greets his old friend - or enemy: "It has been a long time Hjalmar.The years have been kind to you." Poelzig also takes a desirous, but repressed, covert interest in Joan.When they are alone together, Werdegast is outwardly cordial, but in a tense scene, he confronts and taunts his host Poelzig with raging animosity for betraying him (and thousands of other Hungarians) over fifteen years earlier.Police cars were still in pursuit of the tow-truck and the attached van, and Spider-Man continued to save lives.