Tag: William A. Seiter

Room Service is the first Marx Brothers movie based on a stage play that was not explicitly written for or by the brothers. Following Irving Thalberg’s death, Zeppo Marx led the efforts for his brothers to do a film for RKO Radio Pictures. John Murray and Allan Boretz had written the Broadplay play, which the brothers had nothing to do with its creation on stage. Despite Morrie Ryskind adapting the film for the screen, it…