Room Service (1938 film)

Room Service is a 1938 RKO film comedy starring the Marx Brothers and based on the 1937 play of the same name by Allen Boretz and John Murray. It also features Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Alexander Asro, and Frank Albertson.

Groucho plays producer Gordon Miller, whose staff includes Harry Binelli Chico and Faker Englund Harpo. They have assembled the cast and crew of the play in the hotel ballroom, as well as a substantial debt to the hotel. Miller is planning on skipping out on the hotel without paying the bill when he receives word that one of his actresses, Christine Marlowe Lucille Ball, has arranged for a backer. Miller must keep his room and hide the cast and crew until the meeting with the backer can take place.At the same time, a troubleshooter for the hotel chain, Gregory Wagner Donald MacBride discovers the debt. Assured by hotel manager Joe Gribble Cliff Dunstan, who happens to be Millers brotherinlaw, that Miller had skipped, Wagner is surprised to find Miller still in his room, now joined by the plays author, Leo Davis Frank Albertson, who has arrived in town and checked into Millers room. ........

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