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Room Service (1938)

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• This is the first (and last) time the Marx Brothers worked with material not specially created for them.
  
  
• During salary negotiations with R-K-O, erstwhile member Zeppo Marx represented his brothers, threatening to rejoin the group if their demands weren't met!
  
  
• The only film the Brothers made with R-K-O.
  
  

• The original play was adapted into a Marx Bros. screenplay by Morrie Ryskind, who co-wrote the stage and screen versions of Cocoanuts and Animal Crackerss and also co-wrote A Night at the Opera. Much of the original play's strong language had to be toned down for the screen, into milder expletive such as "Jumping butterballs!"
  
  
• ‘Room Service’ opened at the Cort Theater on May 19, 1937 and ran for 500 performances (without the Marx Brothers).
  
  

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