ethereal_reality:
Your last post just jogged my memory (what little remains).
The Grand Hotel (Nugent) was also in the 1951 noir classic "Cry Danger" with Dick Powell.
Here Powell is entering the "pharmacy" on the corner:
Cry Danger, RKO Radio Pictures
Now he is going up the steps to the hotel. In the movie, it is called the Crosley Hotel.
Cry Danger, RKO Radio Pictures