Week-End at the Waldorf

Infobox Film
name = Week-End at the Waldorf


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director = Robert Z. Leonard
producer = Robert Z. Leonard
Arthur Hornblow Jr.
writer = Vicki Baum (novel)
Guy Bolton
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starring = Ginger Rogers
Lana Turner
Walter Pidgeon
Van Johnson
music = Johnny Green
Sidney B. Cutner
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distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = 1945
runtime = 130 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English
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amg_id = 1:53755
imdb_id = 0038239

"Week-End at the Waldorf" is a 1945 American drama film.

An updated version of the classic "Grand Hotel", it focuses on various guests staying at New York City's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Among them are lonely movie star Irene Malvern, in town for a childhood friend's wedding and the premiere of her latest movie; war correspondent Chip Collier, who pretends to be a jewel thief to catch her attention; soldier James Hollis, who has just returned from the war and hopes for a chance at romance with Bunny Smith, the hotel's stenographer/notary public; scheming oil tycoon Martin Edley, involved in shady dealings with the Bey of (fictional) Aribajan; and Oliver Webson, a cub reporter for "Collier's Weekly" hoping to expose him.

The screenplay was adapted from Vicki Baum's novel by Samuel and Bella Spewack. Robert Z. Leonard directed a cast that included Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Lana Turner, Keenan Wynn, Edward Arnold, Robert Benchley, Leon Ames, Phyllis Thaxter, Rosemary DeCamp, and Xavier Cugat.

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*imdb title|id=0038239|title=Week-End at the Waldorf
*amg title|id=1:53755|title=Week-End at the Waldorf