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Monkey Business
It's some fun!
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
- Original title
- Monkey Business
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- $2,000,000
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Jul 14, 2024 · via TMDB
Cary Grant is the professor "Fulton" working for "Oxley" (Charles Coburn) on a project to find some way of turning back time and reversing the ageing process. They are experimenting with various formulae on a selection of rather agile chimps, and it's actually one of them who manages to co come up with a solution that when, inadvertently, added to the water in the cooler manages to turn the academic into a small child. He also feels a bit like a new man, too! This wears off after a short while, so he gets his wife "Edwina" (Ginger Rogers) to sit in on his next experiment - only this time he takes an even stronger dose. Except, he thinks it's his prescribed doses that are causing his youthfulness, whereas we know it's the water in the communal bottle - and that isn't anywhere near as restricted as his medication. Add to the mix, an on-form Marilyn Monroe and loads of daft baby talk and we are left with an enjoyable, if maybe just a little too repetitive, look at the child in all of us. There's a paint fight, some rubber band pranking and maybe neither Grant nor Monroe should ever have got into the car mid-way through. Coburn was always a master at the understated contribution, and here he is a perfect foil for the silliness of the plot as the story gathers pace and heads into the realms of plain screwball. Grant had comedy timing in spades, and with Rogers and Monroe showing they, too, were never far off the pace this is good fun to watch.
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Cary Grant
Barnaby Fulton
Ginger Rogers
Edwina Fulton
Charles Coburn
Oliver Oxley
Marilyn Monroe
Lois Laurel
Hugh Marlowe
Hank Entwhistle
Henri Letondal
Jerome Kitzel
Robert Cornthwaite
Dr. Zoldeck
Larry Keating
GJ Culverly
Douglas Spencer
Dr. Brunner
Esther Dale
Mrs. Rhinelander
George Winslow
Little Indian
Harry Carey Jr.
Reporter (uncredited)
Nico Minardos
Man at Pool (uncredited)
Charlotte Austin
Student (uncredited)
Harry Bartell
Scientist (uncredited)
Faire Binney
Dowager (uncredited)
Harry Carter
Scientist (uncredited)
Melinda Casey
Girl (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
House Painter (uncredited)
George Eldredge
Mr. Peabody (uncredited)
Kathleen Freeman
Mrs. Brannigan (uncredited)
Dabbs Greer
Cabbie (uncredited)
Howard Hawks
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Rudy Lee
Boy (uncredited)
Emmett Lynn
Gus (uncredited)
Paul Maxey
Board Member (uncredited)
John McKee
Photographer (uncredited)
Joseph Mell
Barber (uncredited)
Ray Montgomery
Policeman (uncredited)
Brad Morrow
Boy (uncredited)
Forbes Murray
Board Member (uncredited)
Robert Nichols
Garage Man (uncredited)
Jerry Paris
Scientist (uncredited)
Maudie Prickett
Clerk (uncredited)
Olan Soule
Pickwick Arms Clerk (uncredited)
Gil Stratton
Yale Man (uncredited)
Ruth Warren
Laundress (uncredited)
Mack Williams
Board Member (uncredited)
Milton Krasner
Director of Photography
Travilla
Costume Designer
Howard Hawks
Director
Sol C. Siegel
Producer
Earle Hagen
Orchestrator
Leigh Harline
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Ben Hecht
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Charles Lederer
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