Monkey Business (1952)
It's some fun!
Director: Howard Hawks · Writers: Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, I. A. L. Diamond, Harry Segall
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.
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Director
Howard Hawks
Cast
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
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Cary Grant is the professor "Fulton" working for "Oxley" (Charles Coburn) on a project to find some way of turning back time and reversing the ageing process. They are experimenting with various formulae on a selection of rather agile chimps, and it's actually one of them who manages to co come up with a solution that when, inadvertently, added to the water in the cooler manages to turn the academic into a small child. He also feels a bit like a new man, too! This wears off after a short while, so he gets his wife "Edwina" (Ginger Rogers) to sit in on his next experiment - only this time he takes an even stronger dose. Except, he thinks it's his prescribed doses that are causing his youthfulness, whereas we know it's the water in the communal bottle - and that isn't anywhere near as restricted as his medication. Add to the mix, an on-form Marilyn Monroe and loads of daft baby talk and we…
