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5.0 out of 5 stars
You're old only when you forget you're young, 10 Jul 2003
When I think of Cary Grant, I think of the suave, immaculate, debonair actor who defined cool in his own era as well as our own. Monkey Business, a delightfully funny screwball comedy from 1952, shows us a very different side of Cary Grant. Blessed with major talent the likes of Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, and the lovably huffy character actor Charles Coburn, Monkey Business delivers good old-fashioned comedy from start to finish. Grant plays Barnaby Fulton, a chemist working to develop an age-retarding formula. Ginger Rogers is Edwina, his more than understanding wife; she handles his absent-minded episodes with grace and style, putting his interests before her own every time. Fulton's boss Mr. Oxley (Coburn) is very anxious for the solution to be found, for he is already past retirement age, but some piece of the puzzle just will not fall into place - not, that is, until one of Fulton's lab monkeys escapes her cage, mixes her own formula, and then stashes it in the water cooler. When Fulton tries out his latest concoction, washed down by a cup of water, he soon reverts back to a teenager mentality, running around like a wild man and even entertaining Lois Laurel (Monroe), Mr. Oxley's secretary, for the afternoon. Eventually, the effects wear off and he returns to his normal self, but both he and his wife conduct several more experiments (both accidentally as well as purposely) as the movie progresses, each of them regressing farther and farther back toward childhood each time. Naturally, with all these goings-on, a big, zany ending is in store for everyone involved.The best part of this movie has to be the childlike antics of Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers as they carry on for some time like a couple of eight-year-olds. Marilyn Monroe is stunning and her character never fails to produce laughs. Lois, who has begun coming to work early each morning because her boss isn't satisfied with her punctuation, was not hired for her secretarial skills, but, as Mr. Oxley says, anyone can type. Marilyn gets a fair share of screen time in this early film of hers, but there can be no question that Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers thoroughly steal the show with their comedic antics. In the end, Monkey Business shows that youth is a state of mind, best expressed by Barnaby's line, "You're old only when you forget you're young."
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