Week-End at the Waldorf, an American comedy drama film starring Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, and Van Johnson.

James Hollis, wounded in World War II, facing perilous surgery in three days; so is notorious shyster Martin Edley, trying to hoodwink the Bey of Aribajan into a shady oil deal; both have suites on the same floor as Chip and Irene.

Cub reporter Oliver Webson is hoping to expose Edley; bride-to-be Cynthia Drew is stressing over imagined fears her fiancé Dr. "Bob" Campbell is in love with childhood friend Irene.

Knockout hotel stenographer Bunny Smith hopes to escape her painfully poor roots by marrying rich; and resident Astoria busybody Randy Morton stumbles his way to scoops for his syndicated gossip column.

A waiter finds it and mistakenly delivers it to house bandleader Xavier Cugat, who volunteers to perform it for Hollis on his nationwide radio broadcast the following night from the hotel’s famed Starlight Roof nightclub.

Seeking to get an impromptu will notarized Hollis visits the hotel stenographer's office; instead he leaves with a dinner date with Bunny at the Starlight to hear his friend's song's debut.

Irene finds herself attracted, and when he can’t sneak past a hotel detective posted outside her room to protect her jewelry without creating a public scandal, allows him to spend the night bunked on her couch.

Incensed by cheeky wording Chip used in agreeing to a statement denying the marriage pressed on him by her manager, Irene finally gives in to her affection for the rascally Romeo and the couple makes up.

Waldorf-Astoria management wanted the film shot in color in order to show the hotel at its best advantage, a demand that almost led MGM executives to switch the locale to San Francisco and change the title to Palace in the Sky.

[3] Mrs. Lucius Boomer, wife of the president of the Waldorf-Astoria Corporation, served as a technical advisor on the film, as did Ted Saucier, who handled public relations for the property.

Some interiors and exteriors of the hotel were filmed on location, but the lobby, Starlight Roof, guest rooms, and other public spaces were recreated on the backlot of the MGM Studios in Culver City, California.

[8] On December 2, 2006, Dennis Schwartz gave the film a C+ rating, observing: “ Writers Sam and Bella Spewack (husband and wife reporters turned screenwriters) keep it entertaining and lighthearted but at two hours and eight minutes it’s overlong and the fast-moving but empty stories have no originality or freshness or enough substance to hold one’s interest.