Week-End at the Waldorf (DVD)

Welcome to New York's posh Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Your suite is waiting ' and so are romance, glamour, comedy and drama played with great flair by an all-star cast. A remake of Grand Hotel updated to the waning days of World War II, Week-end at the Waldorf follows the fortunes of a lonely movie star (Ginger Rogers), an on-the-make stenographer (Lana Turner), a wounded flyer (Van Johnson), a war correspondent (Walter Pidgeon), a wheeler-dealer (Edward Arnold) and a gossip columnist (Robert Benchley) whose lives crisscross over two days of martinis, mistaken identities and marriages real and faux. The film's big budget (every dime shows on the screen) paid off handsomely: Week-end became one of 1945's biggest hits.

Starring: Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Edward Arnold, Samuel S. Hinds, Porter Hall, George Zucco, Miles Mander, Frank Puglia, Keenan Wynn, Robert Benchley, Phyllis Thaxter, Leon Ames, Lina Romay, Michael Kirby, Cora Sue Collins, Warner Anderson, Rosemary DeCamp, Jacqueline deWit, Charles Wilson, Irving Bacon, Nana Bryant, Moroni Olsen, William Halligan, Bob Graham, John Wengraf, Xavier Cugat, Russell Hicks, Naomi Childers, William Hall, Ralph Brooke, Don Hayden, Jimmy Clark, Garry Owen, Jimmy Lucas, William Tannen, Mel Schubert, Jack Luden, Hal K. Dawson, John Vosper, Gladden James, Ruth Warren, Hope Landin, Karen Lind, Gertrude Short, June Glory, Kitty Watson, Ann Nelson, Marjorie Davies, Margaret Bert, Alice Keating, Lucille Curtis, Gloria Hope, Joan Thorsen, Cosmo Sardo, Cedric Stevens, Byron Foulger, Nolan Leary, Hercules Mendez, Jamiel Hasson, Joe Dominguez, George Davis, Rex Evans, Wyndham Standing, Paul Andor, Marek Windheim, Dick Crockett, Edward Kilroy, Chef Milani, Harry Barris, Carli Elinor, Tom Quinn, Harry Adams, George Sherwood, Arno Frey, Roger Neury, Gordon Richards, Ken Carpenter, Arlene Gray, Dorothy Christy, Frances Morris, Frank McClure, Estelle Ettere, Albert Godderis, David Cota, Sandra Morgan, Carmen Beretta, Ella Ethridge, Bess Flowers, Dick Gordon, Joyce Tucker, Virginia Hunter, Ruth Lee, Bruce Warren, Alice Wallace, Richard Abbott, Clyde Fillmore, David Alison, Bunny Waters, Nancy Evans, Pat Gleason, Carey Harrison, Harold Miller, Oliver Cross, Paula Ray, Tim Murdock, George Peters, Mary Lee Martin

Director: Arthur Hornblow, Jr., Robert Z. Leonard

Rating: NR