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Monkey Business is a 1952 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, written by Ben Hecht, 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, this film is sometimes referred to as Howard Hawks' Monkey Business.

Monkey Business
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Howard Hawks
Written by	Harry Segall (plot) Ben Hecht Charles Lederer I. A. L. Diamond
Produced by	Sol C. Siegel
Starring	Cary Grant Ginger Rogers Charles Coburn Marilyn Monroe
Cinematography	Milton R. 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)[1]

Plot

Dr. Barnaby Fulton (Cary Grant), an absent-minded research chemist for the Oxley chemical company, is trying to develop an elixir of youth. He is urged on by his commercially minded boss, Oliver Oxley (Charles Coburn). One of Dr. Fulton's chimpanzees, Esther, gets loose in the laboratory, mixes a beaker of chemicals, and pours the mix into the water cooler. The chemicals have the rejuvenating effect Fulton is seeking.

Unaware of Esther's antics, Fulton tests his latest experimental concoction on himself and washes it down with water from the cooler. He soon begins to act like a 20-year-old and spends the day out on the town with his boss's secretary, Lois Laurel (Marilyn Monroe). When Fulton's wife, Edwina (Ginger Rogers), learns that the elixir "works", she drinks some along with water from the cooler and turns into a prank-pulling schoolgirl.

Edwina makes an impetuous phone call to her old flame, the family lawyer, Hank Entwhistle (Hugh Marlowe). Her mother, who knows nothing of the elixir, believes that Edwina is truly unhappy in her marriage and wants a divorce.

Barnaby takes more elixir and befriends a group of kids playing as make-believe "Indians" (Native Americans). They capture and "scalp" Hank (giving him a Mohawk hairstyle), later fleeing when police show up. Meanwhile, Edwina lies down to sleep off the formula. Meanwhile, a woman leaves her baby with the Fultons' housekeeper as she needs an emergency babysitter. When Edwina awakens, a naked baby is next to her and Barnaby's clothes are nearby. She mistakenly presumes he has taken too much formula and regressed to a baby. She takes the child to Oxley to resolve the problem. Together the two attempt to find an antidote and when the baby grows sleepy, Edwina tries to put him to sleep in the hopes of reversing the effects.

Meanwhile, more and more scientists (and Mr. Oxley) at the laboratory are drinking the water and reverting to a second childhood. The formula is lost with the last of the water poured away. As the water is poured away, Barnaby crawls into the laboratory through the window and lies down to sleep next to the baby. Edwina later discovers him and realizes her mistake with the baby. Later at home as Barnaby and Edwina are planning to go out, their spirits and marriage renewed, Barnaby notes that "you're old only when you forget you're young."

Cast

Reception

Critical response

Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 79% based on 28 reviews and an average score of 6.8/10.[2]

Hawks said he did not think the film's premise was believable, and as a result thought the film was not as funny as it could have been. Peter Bogdanovich has noted that the scenes with Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe work especially well and laments that Monroe was not the leading lady instead of Ginger Rogers. However, Gregory Lamb of The Christian Science Monitor described Rogers as "a comedienne par excellence" in the film.[3]

References

External links

• Monkey Business at IMDb
• Monkey Business at AllMovie
• Monkey Business at Rotten Tomatoes
• Monkey Business at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Monkey Business at the British Board of Film Classification
• Monkey Business at the TCM Movie Database
• Historic reviews, photo gallery at CaryGrant.net

На других языках

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- [en] Monkey Business (1952 film)

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[ru] Обезьяньи проделки (фильм, 1952)

«Обезьяньи проделки» (англ. Monkey Business) — эксцентричная комедия 1952 года режиссёра Говарда Хоукса. В главных ролях снялись Кэри Грант, Джинджер Роджерс, Мэрилин Монро и Чарльз Кобёрн.

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