Monkey Business

1952 film by Howard Hawks

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6.7

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.

Released: 1952-09-0397 minDir: Howard HawksComedyBox office: $2.0M

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Cast

Cary Grant as Barnaby Fulton
Ginger Rogers as Edwina Fulton
Charles Coburn as Oliver Oxley
Marilyn Monroe as Lois Laurel
Hugh Marlowe as Hank Entwhistle
Henri Letondal as Jerome Kitzel

Themes

marriage
romcom
water cooler
chemist
potion
screwball comedy
absurdist

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Ratings

IMDb

6.9/10

16,120 votes

Rotten Tomatoes

74%

Year: 1952
Runtime: 97 min
Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Rated: Approved
Awards: 1 nomination total

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Key facts

Directed by: Howard Hawks
Screenplay by: Ben Hecht Charles Lederer I. A. L. Diamond
Story by: Harry Segall
Produced by: Sol C. Siegel
Starring: Cary Grant Ginger Rogers Charles Coburn Marilyn Monroe
Cinematography: Milton Krasner
Edited by: William B. Murphy
Music by: Leigh Harline
Production company: 20th Century-Fox
Distributed by: 20th Century-Fox
Release date: September 5, 1952 ( 1952-09-05 )
Running time: 97 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Box office: $2 million (US rentals )

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Wikidata facts

Duration: 97
FilmAffinity ID: 777312
Image: Marilyn Monroe and Cary Grant in Monkey Business trailer 2.JPG

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Commons category: Monkey Business (1952 film)
publication date: 1952-00-00
title: Monkey Business
review score: 78%

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Monkey Business is a 1952 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn and Marilyn Monroe. To avoid confusion with the unrelated 1931 Marx Brothers film of the same name, the film is sometimes billed as Howard Hawks' Monkey Business.

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