Dec 5th
Monkey Business**
(US 1952)

An absent-minded chemist stumbles on the formula for rejuvenation which is actually the meddling of his experimental chimpanzee.
A Hawks comedy of slightly routine nature, childish in some of its play-acting by stars pretending to be kids (36 years before Big captured it so perceptively), with Cary Grant also obscured for most of the film behind a suitably unsuitable pair of glasses. Marilyn makes her mark however in an early comedy role, and her scenes with Grant are a notable but brief teaming of two famous stars.

Written by: Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, I.A.L.Diamond.
Producer: Sol C. Siegel.
Director: Howard Hawks.
Starring: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe, Henri Letondal,Larry Keating, Robert Cornthwaite.
Photography: MIlton Krasner.
Music: Leigh Harline.

+ MISS LAUREL (Marilyn Monroe): "Mr. Oxley's been complaining about my punctuation, so I'm careful to get here before nine."

MONKEY BUSINESS. A rejuvenated Cary Grant takes to the top diving booard. "Are they all looking at me?", he asks Marilyn Monroe...