Monkey Business

Monkey Business

It's some fun!

1952 · 97 min · ★ 6.7 · Comedy, Science Fiction

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.

Directed by Howard Hawks · Written by Ben Hecht

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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
Marjorie Holliday Oxley Receptionist (uncredited)

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