During the Great Depression, people went to the movies to take their minds off things and to temporarily forget about them. Life was portrayed in different ways during the Great Depression. Different genres of films gave different perspectives on what life was like. The three genres compared are comedy, gangster and musical films. Room Service and Modern Times are two films in the comedy genre and depict a worry-free lifestyle. The Public Enemy is a gangster movie and he had a dangerous lifestyle. Last, but not least is 1933's Gold Diggers and it's a pretty happy film. However, all these films had one thing in common; the characters all had money problems, which is very much related to the Great Depression. Room Service was released in 1938 and starred the Marx Brothers and Lucille Ball. It's a comedy produced by RKO and the director was William Seiter. Room Service was a comedy and throughout the film they had problems with money but they weren't stressed. The movie showed that even though they didn't have much, they still found a way ...