Monkey Business (1952)
After a first role in "Don't Bother to Knock"(1952), Marilyn played the part of a secretary purely decorative in a quite stupid comedy which is talk of a chimpanzee and an elixir of youth.
Her partner was Cary Grant. The Fox tried hard to employ form then on , its new young star at the best of her possibilities, but it was Marilyn last part as a secretary.The premiere took place in Atlantic City, New Jersey. For the roadshow, the studios ensured that Marilyn could lead the Miss America parade. It was the first one to be led by a woman.
After its release date, the movie had a fair success. For their publicity, the movie theaters promoted Marilyn's name instead of those of her partners, Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers, however, better known than her.
Dress and scarf
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with Cary Grant ,,;with Joe DiMaggio
Pompom dress
with the other actors
Roller-skating
Swimming-pool
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Publicity pictures
Wardrobe tests
CREDIT
Twentieth Century-Fox, Black and White
Runtime : 97 mn
Release date : September 5, 1952 .
Premiere at the Stanley Theater, Atlantic CityDirector : Howard Hawks
Producer : Sol C. Siegel
Screenplay :
I.A.L. Diamond, Ben
Hecht, Charles Lederer, Harry Segall (original story)
Director of photography : Milton R. Krasner
Music :
Leigh Harline
Production
: George Patrick, Lyle R. Wheeler
Costumes : William Travilla
Film editing :
William B. Murphy.
CAST
Cary Grant
- Barnaby Fulton
Ginger
Rogers - Edwina Fulton
Charles
Coburn - Mr Oliver Oxley
Marilyn
Monroe - Lois Laurel
Hugh
Marlowe - Hank Entwhistle
Henri
Letondal - Siegfried Kitzel
Robert Cornthwaite - Dr Zoldeck
Larry
Keating - G.J. Culverly
Douglas
Spencer - Dr Brunner
Esther Dale
- Mrs Rhinelander
George Winslow - little indian
Emmett Lynn
- Jimmy
Joseph Mell
- Barber
George Eldredge - auto salesman
Heinie Conklin - the house painter
Kathleen Freeman - neighbor
Olan Soule - Pickwick Arms Desk Clerk
Harry Carey
Jr - reporter
John R.
McKee - photographer
Faire Binney - dowager
Bill McLean - bellboy
Paul Maxey
- board member
Mack
Williams - board member
Gil Stratton - Yale man
Forbes Murray - board member
Marjorie Holiday - Oxley receptionist
Harry Seymour - clothing store salesman
Jerry Paris - scientist
Roger Moore - bit man
Ruth Warren
- laundress
Isabel Withers - laundress
Olive Carey - blanchisseuse
Dabbs Greer - cab driver
Russ Clark
- policeman
Ray Montgomery - policeman
Melinda Plowman - bit girl
Terry Goodman - bit boy
Ronnie Clark - bit boy
Rudy Lee - bit boy
Mickey Little - bit boy
Brad Mora - bit boy
Jimmy Roebuck - bit boy
Louis Lettieri - bit boy
Robert
Nichols - garage man
Jerry
Sheldon - the guard.
TECHNICAL CREW
W.D. Flick
- sound
Earle H. Hagen - orchestrator
Paul Helmick - assistant diretor
Roger Heman - sound
Ray Kellogg - special effects
Charles LeMaire - costumes
Thomas Little - set decoration
Lionel Newman - musical director
Ben Nye - make-up
George Patrick - art director
Walter M. Scott - set decoration
Helen Turpin - hairdresser
Lyle R. Wheeler - art director.
SYNOPSIS
Barnaby Fulton (Cary Grant) is a scientist who tried to discover an elixir of youth, but his works are frustrated by one of the chimpanzees on which he had done tests.
The monkey escapes form his cage and by chance, makes the chemical mixture. He pours a part of the chemical in the water foutain, and Fulton drinks a large draught of it. He immediately looks younger. Fulton's boss sends his secretary, Lois Laurel (Marilyn Monroe), looking for the savant, who has disappeared. Fulton, very excited, leads the young girl to the pool, then on a roller-skating track, then in a high-powered car he drives full speed ahead.
The effects of the magic potion disappears, but it's Fulton's wife turn, Edwina (Ginger Rogers), to unvoluntarily drink it.