Episode 96: Room Service Reordered (featuring the Marx Brothers Council)
We hope you’ll enjoy the accommodations here at our 96th episode, in which we listen and respond to your comments about Room Service, the only Marx Brothers movie that’s based on the play Room Service.
And then, we continue to learn about Jean Burt, who played the manicurist in A Night at the Opera! Stick around after the Room Service commentary and enjoy Bob’s interview with Bonnie Clevering, motion picture hair designer and protege of Jean Burt. Bonnie shares memories of Jean and also talks about her extraordinary Hollywood career.
Continuity: Life Beyond the Credits by Bonnie Clevering, 2025
We thank Bonnie for speaking with us and helping us to understand the mysterious manicurist! You can follow Bonnie on Instagram. Her memoir, Continuity: Life Beyond the Credits is available now.
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Official description: “We check back into Room Service, this time putting the spotlight on listener comments about the much-debated 1938 Marx adaptation of the Broadway hit. We rethink the film’s restrained version of the team, missed opportunities, and which brother surprisingly fares best.
“It’s a lively back-and-forth featuring defenses, complaints, fresh observations and some wonderfully specific nitpicking. By the end, Room Service may not have won everyone over, but it certainly gives us plenty to argue about.”
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