Monkey Business (1952)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.1/10   

Director:

Howard Hawks

Escritores:

Ben Hecht (screenplay) &
Charles Lederer (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

septiembre 1952 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Ciencia-Ficción

Plot:

Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself...

Plot Keywords:

Water Cooler | Youth | Chemist | Water | Boss

Premios:

Nominated for Golden Globe.

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Good Fun

Reparto

Cary Grant	...	Dr. Barnaby Fulton
Ginger Rogers	...	Mrs. Edwina Fulton
Charles Coburn	...	Mr. Oliver Oxley
Marilyn Monroe	...	Miss Lois Laurel
Hugh Marlowe	...	Hank Entwhistle
Henri Letondal	...	Dr. Jerome Kitzel
Robert Cornthwaite	...	Dr. Zoldeck
Larry Keating	...	G.J. Culverly
Douglas Spencer	...	Dr. Brunner
Esther Dale	...	Mrs. Rhinelander
George Winslow	...	Little Indian

También conocida como:

Be Your Age
Darling I Am Growing Younger (USA) (working title)
Howard Hawks' Monkey Business (USA) (complete title)
Me siento rejuvenecer (Mexico) (TV title) (Spain) [es]
Joven otra vez (Venezuela) [es]
Vitaminas para el amor (Chile) [es]

Duración:

97 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

USA:Approved (certificate #15862) | Canada:G (video rating) | Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | West Germany:12 | Spain:T

Locaciones de Filmación:

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Compañía:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivialidades:

The off-screen voice during the opening credits is director Howard Hawks.

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: Before the baby walks into the house and lays beside Edwina, a shadow can be seen just inside the front door that moves further into the room.

Citas:

[to his secretary, whose assets are in other areas]
Oliver Oxley: Find someone to type this.
Lois Laurel: Oh, Mr. Oxley. Can't I try again?
Oliver Oxley: No, it's very important. Better find someone to type it for you.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Spin City: Monkey Business (#3.12)" (1998)

Banda de Sonido:

The Whiffenpoof Song

Good Fun

This is a very good movie to watch when all you want to do is to have a good time and some good laughs. There isn't a minute of it that would hold up to logical analysis, but there's barely a minute of it that isn't fun to watch. The story is pleasantly zany, the characters are entertaining, and the stars were all perfectly chosen for their roles.

Hawks's opening gag with Cary Grant in the doorway sets the tone, and lets you know right away that you can sit back and not take anything seriously for a while. Grant's character, a somewhat befuddled scientist who is trying to come up with a "youth formula", is the kind of role he could play in his sleep. As Grant's wife, Ginger Rogers doesn't get much to do for a good while, but then she has some fine comic moments later on. Charles Coburn is perfect as Grant's boss, and he gets a couple of the best lines in the whole show. And who better than Marilyn Monroe to play Coburn's secretary?

It's an entertaining throwback to the screwball comedies of a slightly earlier era. "Monkey Business" may be no masterpiece, but it's good fun of the pleasantly offbeat kind that is rare anymore.