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Week-End at the Waldorf
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| Directed by | Robert Z. Leonard |
| Produced by | Robert Z. Leonard Arthur Hornblow Jr. |
| Written by | Vicki Baum (novel) Guy Bolton |
| Starring | Ginger Rogers Lana Turner Walter Pidgeon Van Johnson |
| Music by | Johnny Green Sidney B. Cutner |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | 1945 |
| Running time | 130 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
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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.