Having paid $255,500 for the rights to John Murray and Allen Boretz’ Broadway hit Room Service, RKO Radio then scouted about for a “perfect” cast. Thanks to the persistence of show-biz agent Zeppo Marx, RKO was able to secure the services of Zeppo’s brothers Groucho, Harpo and Chico Marx for $100,000. The result is an uneven but entertaining blend of traditional stage farce and Marxian madness. Groucho plays two-bit producer Gordon Miller, who has gone deeply into debt while trying to stage a turgid production called “Hail and Farewell”. Miller and his entire cast are ensconced in the Great White Way Hotel, managed by his brother-in-law Gribble Cliff Dunstan, who is fed up with the troupe’s inability to pay its bills. As Miller, his director Harry Binelli (Chico) and his business manager Faker Englund (Harpo) try to figure out new methods of raising money, in walks Leo Davis Frank Albertson, the wide-eyed playwright, who is unaware that his masterpiece is in danger of closing before it even opens. He soon figures out what’s what after Harry and Faker hock his typewriter for eating money. When hotel inspector Wagner Donald MacBride threatens to throw Miller and his entourage out bag and baggage, the producer and his cronies fake a measles epidemic so that Wagner will be forced to allow them to stay. Salvation seems at hand when Jenkins Philip Wood, a potential backer, arrives with a blank check in hand. But after sampling a bit of the lunacy that has surrounded the play since its inception, Jenkins dashes off, refusing to finance such a chancy property. Miller manages to mollify Wagner by pretending that Jenkins has invested money in the show, but when this scheme falls through, our hero resorts to really drastic measures by pretending that Davis and Faker have both committed suicide because of Wagner’s persecution. Weaving in and out of the proceedings are nominal heroines Lucille Ball and Ann Miller, as well as Philip Loeb (who played Faker in the original Broadway production), brilliantly cast as a mild-mannered bill collector. Room Service is hardly typical Marx Bros. fare, despite the efforts by screenwriter Morris Ryskind to inject characteristic verbal gags and visual bits into the action; the film works better as a situation comedy than as a Marx vehicle (Groucho’s only comment on the subject was that his brother Zeppo should have arranged a larger salary). In 1943, RKO Radio remade Room Service as a musical titled Step Lively, which was actually something of an improvement on the original., The Marx brothers star in the film version of the Broadway comedy hit. A bankrupt stage manager tries to put on a new play – and stay in his hotel room., Classic, groundbreaking comedy from the gang that gave us the ‘I shot an elephant in my pyjamas today’ gag. And it’s a brave departure for the riotous Marx brothers as they star in the film version of a Broadway comedy hit. A bankrupt stage manager tries to put on a new play – and stay in his hotel room. Sounds like Mel Brooks might have been inspired by this when he wrote hit comedy ‘The Producers’, doesn’t it?, A theatre producer and his staff don’t have enough money to bring their latest play out of rehearsals, or to pay their hotel bills. Under the threat of eviction, the trio struggle to outsmart the hotel manager and get their play to the stage. From the play by John Murray and Allen Boretz.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “Room Service ” ?
A: The main cast includes Groucho Marx,Chico Marx,Harpo Marx,Lucille Ball,Ann Miller,Frank Albertson,Donald MacBride,Clifford Dunstan,Philip Loeb,Philip Wood,Alexander Asro,Charles Halton,Marx Brothers,Roy Webb,Darrell Silvera,Al Herman,Renie,Van Nest Polglase,George Crone,Roy Hunt,Morris Ryskind,J. Roy Hunt,Alfred Herman.
Q: When Did the “Room Service” Released?
A: The Movie “Room Service” originally aired on 1938-09-21 and released in the year of 1938.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “Room Service” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “Room Service” ?
A: “Room Service” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
