The play was adapted for the Marxes by Morrie Ryskind. Zeppo Marx, who had retired from the screen after Duck Soup and was now representing his brothers, brokered a deal with RKO to produce the version of the Broadway play Room Service by John Murray and Allan Boretz. *Indicates the actor created the role on Broadway. Wagner realizes he's been duped as the play is greeted with thunderous applause and a revived Davis appears next to Wagner, causing him to faint. They go to watch the end of the play, which is a scene where the miners are bringing a body from out of the mine. Miller bluffs their way out of the situation, so he and Wagner make an escape, leaving Englund "asleep". As Miller and Wagner prop Englund on a crate, a passing policeman asks what's going on.
Wagner is bluffed into believing it's all his fault and helps take the "body" down to the alley. Then Englund disappears and reappears pretending to have committed suicide. They pretend to give Davis large quantities of Ipecac (which is actually drunk by Englund), and he eventually pretends to die. Later, as the play is about to open, the check from Fisk bounces, Miller, Binelli, and Englund manipulate Wagner into believing he's driven the play's author to take poison. Wagner is fooled into believing all is well, and upgrades the boys to a fancier room and extends them more credit. The agent just wants to escape the madness, but reluctantly signs over the check, and leaves.ĭavis returns and says he heard the agent say he will stop payment on the check, and just signed it to get out of the room.
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The agent for Zachary Fisk, the wealthy backer, arrives to sign over the check, the doctor breaks free in the bathroom, and the agent is hit on the head accidentally as Englund chases a flying turkey around with a baseball bat. To delay the doctor giving his report to Wagner, Binelli and Miller tie him up, gag him, and lock him in the bathroom. Wagner leaves to confront the crowd in the ballroom, while the doctor examines the patient. When Davis leaves to meet with girlfriend Hilda Manney, Englund takes over as the sick patient examined by a doctor brought in by Mr. To obtain food, Miller promises waiter Sasha Smirnoff a part in the play. When Wagner threatens to evict Miller before the backer can arrive, Miller and Binelli convince Davis to pretend to be sick. Assured by Gribble that Miller had skipped without paying his bill, Wagner is surprised to find Miller still in his room, now joined by the play's author, Leo Davis, who has arrived in town and checked into Miller's room.
Miller must keep his room and the cast and crew hidden until he can meet with the backer and receive a check.Īt the same time, Wagner discovers Miller's debt. Miller is planning on skipping out on the hotel without paying the bill when he receives word that one of his actresses, Christine Marlowe, has arranged for a backer. Miller has hidden the cast and crew of his play, Hail and Farewell, in the empty hotel ballroom. Gordon Miller, a flat-broke theatrical producer, whose staff includes Harry Binelli and Faker Englund, is told by his brother-in-law Joseph Gribble, manager of the White Way Hotel, that he and his cast of twenty-two actors, who have run up a bill of $1,200, must leave the hotel immediately or face the wrath of supervising director Gregory Wagner.
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