Available on DVD:
Room Service (1938)
- DVD, Region 1: Warner Home Video, www.marxbrothersdvd.com, May 2004 / double-sided DVD, also contains 'At the Circus'
Special Features (side A):
Short: Our Gang in 'Party Fever'
Looney Tunes cartoon: 'The Daffy Doc'
Theatrical trailer
(for side B see 'At the Circus)
(only available as part of the "Marx Brothers Collection", see below)
Lucille Ball guest stars in this film released in 1938. The boys are producers trying to keep their play above water and keep from getting kicked out of their hotel room. This film marked the 1st time the Marxes had tried doing work they had not created for themselves. (J. Bradley Main)
Cast:
| Groucho Marx | Gordon Miller | ||
| Harpo Marx | Faker Englund | ||
| Chico Marx | Harry Binelli | ||
| Lucille Ball | Christine Marlowe | ||
| Ann Miller | Hilda Manny | ||
| Frank Albertson | Leo Davis | ||
| Donald MacBride | Gregory Wagner | ||
| Cliff Dunstan | Joseph Gribble | ||
| Philip Loeb | Timothy Hogarth | ||
| Alexander Asro | Sasha Smirnoff | ||
| Charles Halton | Dr. Glass | ||
| Philip Wood | Simon Jenkins |
| Director | William A. Seiter | ||
| Written by | Morrie Ryskind | ||
| Allen Boretz (play) | |||
| John Murray | |||
| Cinematography | J. Roy Hunt | ||
| Editor | George Crone | ||
| ArtDirector | Alfred Herman | ||
| Van Nest Polglase | |||
| Set dresser | Darrell Silvera | ||
| Musical director | Roy Webb | ||
| Sound recordist | John L. Cass | ||
| Gowns designer | Renié | ||
| Assistant to director | Philip Loeb | ||
| Assistant director | James Anderson | ||
| In charge of production | Pandro S. Berman | ||
| Producer | George Abbott | ||
| Pandro S. Berman | |||
| Production company / Distribution | RKO Radio Pictures | ||
| Runtime | USA | ||
| 78 min. | |||
| New York opening | 21 Sep 1938 | ||
| Release date | 30 Sep 1938 | ||
| Remade as | Step Lively (1944) | ||
| Spanish title | El hotel de los lios | ||
| French title | Panique à l'hôtel |
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