Room service

United States, 1938

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The Marx Brothers are penniless Broadway producers, living in a hotel, who are planning a new stage show and are waiting for the finance to come through. As their hotel room becomes packed by members of the cast and the hotel bill escalates, the Marx Brothers devise a number of schemes to avoid eviction by the hotel’s management. Also stars Lucille Ball.

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Credits

producer

Pandro S. Berman

production company

RKO Radio Pictures

director

William A. Seiter

Duration

01:19:00:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1938

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

302799

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Comedy

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - United States

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q1437531

TMDB-Movie

15938

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