Monkey Business

No, I'm not talking about the Marx Brothers film, but the one starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and..oh...that newcomer, what's her name? Oh yes- Marilyn Monroe!

Actually, producers and directors knew she was a hot property and her name was just starting to get a buzz when they put her in this movie, priming her for stardom. But the true stars in every sense of the word in this film are Cary and Ginger.

I won't go into an entire review of this wonderful movie, but will give a very short synopsis:

Cary plays an absent-minded professor and Ginger, his very understanding wife. He works in a lab where chimps are kept (don't worry, they are all treated well) as he and his lab assistant work in vain to create an illusive formula to reverse aging. One of the chimps escapes his cage and begins doing a little experimenting of his own at the chemistry table and...well, you get the picture. Unbeknownst to Cary and crew, the formula is created!

Grant and Rogers, as a happily married couple, have a very incredible chemistry in this film...and for the time period, there are many hidden meanings and I suppose, sexual inuendos. But nothing overt...and it's actually a refreshing pleasure to see that the married characters still have "that honeymoon feeling."

I can't say enough about this movie...I'm leaving out many pertitent details due to time contraints, but this 1952 Howard Hawks film is one of my all-time favorites.
There are only a handful of classic comedies that I can see over and over and over... and still laugh out loud each and every time. This is definately one of them!