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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.
Released: 1952-09-0397 minDir: Howard HawksComedyBox office: $2.0M
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- 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
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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.
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1950s science fiction comedy films1950s screwball comedy films1952 American films1952 comedy films1952 English-language films1952 films1952 science fiction films20th Century Fox filmsAmerican black-and-white filmsAmerican science fiction comedy filmsAmerican screwball comedy filmsEnglish-language science fiction comedy films