Monkey Business

Sep 3, 1952

1h 37m

★ 6.7

It's some fun!

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.

Genres

Comedy

Science Fiction

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Monkey Business Trailers

Cast

Barnaby Fulton

Cary Grant

Edwina Fulton

Ginger Rogers

Oliver Oxley

Charles Coburn

Lois Laurel

Marilyn Monroe

Hank Entwhistle

Hugh Marlowe

Jerome Kitzel

Henri Letondal

Dr. Zoldeck

Robert Cornthwaite

GJ Culverly

Larry Keating

Dr. Brunner

Douglas Spencer

Mrs. Rhinelander

Esther Dale

Little Indian

George Winslow

Oxley Receptionist (uncredited)

Marjorie Holliday

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