Movie
Monkey Business
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1952-09-03
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
- Robert Cornthwaite as Dr. Zoldeck
- Larry Keating as GJ Culverly
- Douglas Spencer as Dr. Brunner
- Esther Dale as Mrs. Rhinelander
- George Winslow as Little Indian
- Marjorie Holliday as Oxley Receptionist (uncredited)
Crew
- Howard Hawks - Director
- Charles Lederer - Screenplay
- Ben Hecht - Screenplay
- I. A. L. Diamond - Screenplay
- Harry Segall - Story
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