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Room Service(Movie, 1938)

1h 18min | Genre: Comedy
Room ServiceRating: 3.3/5 (with 2727 votes)
Room Service is a 1938 American comedy film directed by William A. Seiter, based on the 1937 play of the same name by Allen Boretz and John Murray. The film stars the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo and Chico) and also features Lucille Ball, Ann Miller and Frank Albertson. It was produced and distributed by RKO Pictures; RKO paid $255,000 for filming rights, which was then a record for a sound picture. This is the only film starring the Marx Brothers with a screenplay based on material that was not written especially for the team. Less frenetic and more physically contained than their other films, the plot revolves around the shenanigans of a broke Broadway producer getting a play staged and funded by a mysterious backer, while evading eviction from a hotel. RKO remade the movie in 1944 as Step Lively, starring George Murphy and Frank Sinatra using ample recycled footage from the original film. ()
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About Room Service

Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with with the hotel manager trying to evict him and his cast.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Russian (RU)
Translated into 12 languages: Catalan (CA), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/21/1938
Producer: George Abbott
Screenwriter: Morrie Ryskind
Film Editor: George Crone
Director of Photography: J. Roy Hunt
Composer: Roy Webb
Costume designer: Renié
Production Designer: Van Nest Polglase
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Por Conta do Bonifácio"
"Die Marx Brothers - Zimmerdienst"
"Die Marx Brothers: Zimmerdienst"
"Panik i hotellet"
"El hotel de los líos"
"Panique à l'hôtel"
"Panik på hotellet"
"Marx Brothers [1938] Room Service"
"The Marx Brothers in Room Service"
Keywords: hotel, room service
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Other movies with this title: Room Service (FR, 1992), Room Service (PH, 2004), Room Service (US, 2005), Room Service (2018)

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