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Monkey Business
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Monkey Business is a 1952 American screwball comedy and science fiction film directed by Howard Hawks. The cast includes Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, and Charles Coburn. The screenplay was written by Ben Hecht, I. A. L. Diamond, Charles Lederer, and Howard Hawks, with Sol C. Siegel serving as producer. Leigh Harline composed the music, while Milton Krasner handled cinematography and Walter M. Scott served as production designer.
The film was produced in black-and-white and has a runtime of 97 minutes. It was distributed by 20th Century Studios and Netflix, with 20th Century Fox also credited. The original language is English. The movie generated $2,000,000 in revenue. It holds a review score of 6.9 out of 10 and 78 percent, with an additional rating of 74 percent. The film received one nomination total.
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6.7Research 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.
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
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- science fiction film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Howard Hawks
- Screenwriter
- Howard Hawks
- Cast member
- Emmett Lynn
- Composer
- Leigh Harline
- Producer
- Sol C. Siegel
- Cinematographer
- Milton Krasner
- Duration
- 97
- FilmAffinity ID
- 777312
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- 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
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Netflix
- production designer
- Walter M. Scott
- review score
- 78%
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Plot
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