Weekend at the Waldorf

Weekend at the Waldorf (1945)



Loosely based on the 1932 classic Grand Hotel, Weekend at the Warldorf changed the location of the hotel and the occupations of the characters, but the plot remains the same.

The story is told by columnist Randy Morton, who lived in the Waldorf Astoria, and started on Friday afternoon, when a young honeymoon couple was agonising over not having a booking. A highly respected businessman named Jessup offered to let them stay in his apartment, as he would be away for the weekend.

Martin X. Edley was a conniving, vulgar business tycoon in the middle of negotiating an oil deal with the Bey of Aribajan, he failed to convince Jessup to be a partner in this deal but lied to the Bey about it, cashing in on his reputation and his being away for the weekend.

Bunny Smith was an ambitious stenographer working in the public stenographer's office (business centre) of the hotel and was about to catch her big break - Edley took a fancy to her and promised to hire her as his secretary, amongst other things. But she met Captain James Hollis, who just found out that there's a shrapnel fragment near his heart and he may not survive the surgery, and wanted Bunny to notaries his will. The two fell in love but Bunny resisted James, preferring bread over love.

Also living in the hotel was famous actress Irene Malvern, a successful but lonely theatre/movie star. Irene learned from her maid Anna that her crook boyfriend wanted to steal Irene's jewels. Anna begged Irene to not go to the police but tried to talk to the man, she agreed. But instead of Anna's boyfriend, it was Chip Collyer who sneaked into her room.

Chip Collyer was a famous war journalist in between assignments and taking a weekend vacation in New York. In order to help out a young reporter Oliver Webson do a story on Edley's unethical business dealings, he hid in the laundry cart hoping to sneak into the Bey's room; but got into Irene's room by mistake. Fascinated by Irene's beauty and taking pleasure in playing pranks, he pretended to be the crook and ended up spending most of the weekend in her suite, pretending to be her husband. Chip and Irene fell in love and decided to let everyone else believe that they were indeed married.

James was suppose to mail a ballad manuscript, written by a dead air force friend, to the grieving mother. The manuscript was lost and returned to band leader Xavier Cugat by mistake. Cugat was impressed and agreed to play the ballad for the popular Saturday radio broadcast from Waldorf's Starlight Roof. Edley was entertaining the Bey on the same night and invited Bunny to be his date. Bunny and James met again, the love song did its magic, James got his girl, and found the will to live.

With Chip's help, Webson got his first front page and Edley was ruined. Jessup returned from his weekend trip just in time to conduct business with the Bey - it turned out that the Bey spoke perfect English, supports the American cause and knew all along that Jessup was not in; he was just stalling Edley to wait for him to come back.

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