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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.
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate. And it all happens in the opulent, grandiose New York landmark hotel as a sort of tongue-in-cheek take-off on the classic movie Grand Hotel. Written by A.L.Beneteau
