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The Laugh Parade: Monkey Business

on BBC One London

The second in a new season of comedy films stars tonight Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe with Charles Coburn, Hugh Marlowe

With the aid of a laboratory chimpanzee a research chemist formulates an elixir of youth - but the effects of rejuvenation turn out to have some unexpected and hilarious results.
Howard Hawkes gave Marilyn Monroe her first major comedy role in Monkey Business. It was the fourth in a series of stylish, breakneck comedies that he had made with Cary Grant, and one of the most successful.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Ben Hecht
Screenplay:
Charles Lederer
Screenplay:
I.A.L. Diamond
Producer:
Sol C Siegel
Director:
Howard Hawkes
Barnaby Fulton:
Cary Grant
Edwina:
Ginger Rogers
Mr Oxley:
Charles Coburn
Lois Laurel:
Marilyn Monroe
Harvey Entwhistle:
Hugh Marlowe
Siegfried Kitzel:
Henri Letondal
Dr Zoldeck:
Robert Cornthwaite
Mr Culverly:
Larry Keating

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