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Never the studio to leave well enough alone, MGM resurrected Vicki Baum's ancient Grand Hotel, performed a vigorous spring cleaning and re-titled the result Weekend at the Waldorf. But along with the dust, the posh hostelry also lost some of its heart and soul. Rather than world-weary and slightly decadent like their predecessors, Ginger Rogers and Walter Pidgeon come across as merely bored. In fact, only Lana Turner, in the spot once occupied by Joan Crawford, adds a bit of glamorous sparkle to a hodgepodge all too preoccupied with such World War II fads as Van Johnson and Xavier Cugat and his orchestra. But Weekend at the Waldorf was certainly a handsome advertisement for the famous New York establishment.