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Buoyed by the tremendous energy of Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers, MONKEY BUSINESS is a charming throwback to the screwball era of the 1930s and 40s. You know that you're being asked to leave reality behind and just settle back for a good laugh the second the film begins, especially when the narrator repeatedly warns Cary from beginning the film before the credits are done rolling! Directed with great skill by Howard Hawks (mastermind of brilliant films such as 'Bringing Up Baby' and 'His Girl Friday'), the film shares the trademark rapidfire dialogue and zany situations typical of most Hawksian comedies. As always, following the conversation between the characters is more than enough to leave the viewer breathless... One example, out of so many, is the scene in Room 304, when young!Edwina loses her temper and the couple squabble about Hank Entwistle and she finally locks Barnaby out of the room--to hilarious and painful effect!

As with most screwball comedies, the premise of the film must first be accepted, since the entire film is a logical development from the original (zany) premise. In 'Monkey Business', Barnaby Fulton is working on the development of some kind of youth elixir, which he is testing on chimpanzees. Unbeknownst to him, one of his test subjects escapes his cage and successfully concocts the potion, leaving it in the water fountain. Of course, when Barnaby tests the potion on himself, he drinks some water to get the bitter taste out of his mouth--and almost immediately becomes about 20 years old mentally and physically. Before the elixir wears off, Barnaby gets a funky new haircut, coat and car, all with his boss' sexy young secretary (Marilyn Monroe, who else?) at his side. His wife Edwina (Ginger Rogers) then gets in on the action, taking some of the elixir to allow Barnaby to make scientific observations about someone else's reaction to it. It isn't long before she drags her husband to their honeymoon hotel, dances the night away, and impetuously starts divorce proceedings when he upsets her. The ending is a terrific exercise in belief-suspension, as the rejuvenated Barnaby and Edwina (simultaneously, this time) engage in paint wars, hair-pulling and scalping.

The best part of the film really would have to be the central performance given by Cary Grant as Barnaby Fulton. He's evidently one of Hawks's favourite actors, and for good reason too--he makes the trippiest of dialogue sound perfectly natural, and plays science-geeks and debonair reporters equally convincingly. With Barnaby, the viewer is instantly reminded of David Huxley, a role Cary Grant infused with life about 15 years ago in Bringing Up Baby. Just as David is kickstarted to life by Susan, Barnaby is youthened by the elixir, and in both films, it's a delight to watch the transformation take place. Initially, Grant's Barnaby is as stuffy as you can imagine a scientist--he's absent-minded and somewhat stern; in effect, all 'grown-up'. But the moment the youth elixir kicks in, the change is miraculous yet believable. Watch in delight as Barnaby flips an effortless cartwheel; drives like a daredevil; and conducts an entire chorus of children in a rousing war song. The 'joie de vivre' that Grant infuses his character with is almost palpable.

Cary Grant is also capably matched by Ginger Rogers in their second film together. Her ability to turn into a little girl is charming in the extreme, and you can see the years drop off her in her final stint as young Edwina... it's so evident that she's having fun as she tap-dances through the hotel, or flips rubber bands at people, chews gum, and scribbles "Barnaby loves Edwina" across the conference room chalkboard.

In general, the film itself is a little uneven: it has brilliant and hilarious moments, but you definitely get the feeling that much of the film is coasting on the considerable energy and skill of its cast--a splendid Cary Grant, a lovely Ginger Rogers, and an intriguingly young Marilyn Monroe. You probably won't be in too much of a hurry to rewatch this film once you've seen it the first time, but there's really no reason to put off your first viewing... so what are you waiting for?

Thoroughly enjoyable comedy with Cary Grant as the absent-minded professor who's messing around looking for the fountain of youth. Ginger Rogers gets to dance a little without Fred Astaire plus demonstrate a wonderful comic style as she mixes it up with Marilyn Monroe. It's 1952 but you wouldn't know it (except for Marilyn's presence). Howard Hawks takes you back to the good old days when Hollywood demonstrated total mastery of time and space with the screwball comedy.

Along with monkeyshines and child actors, you really get a lot in this film: Grant and Rogers play off each other very nicely and the driving scene with Monroe and Grant is a classic. Adding to the hijinx is Charles Coburn, who always dominates the screen with his easy charm. I bet he loved chasing after Monroe with a spray bottle.

The movie holds up well over 50 years later which makes one wonder why Hollywood hasn't, cringe, chosen to ape the storyline for Jim Carrey or maybe Tom Hanks, who might be looking for a comic turn these days.

But then they remade Freaky Friday this summer, didn't they?

The picture centers upon a scientist (Gary Grant) and his wife (Ginger Rogers) , he discovers a potion with extraordinary effects making younger themselves . He is testing the rejuvenating formula on a chimp turning nutty . This film is an underlying screwball comedy united to : ¨Bringing up baby¨ , ¨Ball of fire¨ and ¨His girl Friday¨ , all of them by the trio : Gary Grant-Gary Cooper-Howard Hawks and they are splendid .

In the movie there are comedy , tongue-in-cheek , joy , giggles and is pretty amusing . From the initiation to the final the humor is unstopped . Gary Grant and Ginger Rogers' interpretations are top notch , both of whom are awesome comedy actors . Ginger Rogers is the number one as dancer actress , besides a fascinating comedian and she achieved an Academy award as main actress for her portrayal in ¨Kitty Foyle , natural history of a woman¨ . The support cast is first range , are the veteran Charles Coburn and a newcomer Marilyn Monroe who at her playing as an attractive and charming secretary demonstrates experience like future first star . Excellent storyline by Ben Hetch and L.A.I. Diamond , they're Billy Wilder's habitual writers . Howard Hawks' direction is very good , Hawks has classics on every genre , thus : noir genre (The big sleep) , Western (Rio Bravo) and comedy (Monkey business) . The yarn will appeal to comedy enthusiasts and Gary Grant fans . Rating: Above average . Well worth seeing.

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.

It's worth the price of admission to see Marilyn Monroe showing her leg to a nerdy Cary Grant early on, and then tool around with him in a sports car and go roller skating with him, which they do after he's taken a youth potion accidentally created by one of his lab chimps. As you might guess, there are some pretty silly things in the script, but it's a cute story, and to see Grant and Ginger Rogers carrying on as young adults and later children tickled me too. It seems to me that the film may have served as the inspiration for other films, like 'The Nutty Professor, and some of its content may have seemed fresher in 1952, but it's still entertaining because of this star power. In smaller parts, the performance from the chimpanzee is impressive, and I also liked child actor George Winslow, who deadpans his lines in that heavy voice of his. Lastly, it made me smile to hear Grant and Rogers alluding to rediscovering memorable nights of passion from when they were younger, in that restrained but sexy way of the period. There are some nice lines at the end too: "You're old only when you forget you're young. ... It's a word you keep in your heart, a light you have in your eyes, someone you hold in your arms."

Monkey Business Cary Grant's second film with Ginger Rogers and his fourth and final film for director Howard Hawks has him reaching back into some of the lunacy of his previous work like Arsenic and Old Lace. Not since that madcap piece was Grant ever so frantic on the screen.

Ginger Rogers doesn't yield one inch of screen ground to him in that department though. In The Major and The Minor she faked being a teenage girl very convincingly and in this film she and Cary go back even farther in their return to adolescence.

Cary is a research scientist who is working on that eternal quest for the fountain of youth. A chimpanzee gets loose from her cage and mixes some chemicals and dumps the result in the water-cooler. Everyone thinks it's what Cary's concocted and the company bigwigs led by Charles Coburn and Larry Keating try to get it from him, but in his adolescent state it's no avail.

Monkey Business does meander over into just plain outright silliness, but with Cary and Ginger you don't really mind. I do so love the way Cary with a gang of kids he's playing Indians with leave poor Hugh Marlowe tied to a tree ready for a scalping because the wolfish Marlowe's been making moves on Ginger.

Second to that is Charles Coburn and Ginger Rogers trying to talk to an infant who they think Cary has morphed into. Coburn may have been one of the screen's greatest actors, he'd have to have been to hold his own with that baby. Note the dignified expression on his face never leaves.

Of course Monkey Business is also known for having one of Marilyn Monroe's early screen roles in it on her way up. She's Coburn's secretary and note the expression on Coburn's face as she is showing Grant the result of his work on a no run stocking.

Monkey Business is second tier stuff for Grant, Rogers, and Hawks, but fans of all three will like it and quite a few more than those people.

This movie contains a part that is one of the funniest I have ever seen. It is when Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers get called into the board of directors room and they both are acting like children, having both taken the formula without knowing it. To top it all off, the monkey was on the ceiling throwing light bulbs.

Overall it was a very funny movie, clever, yet far-fetched. I would rate this as one of Cary Grants best performances. Ginger Rogers was also very good. However for some reason there wasnt enough Marilyn in this movie. I few parts that she was in, she was very funny. I don't know why she only played a small role in this movie. Her funniest line was at the beginning when the boss told her to go to every ford dealership and look for Barnaby. Her reply was, "Which one do you want me to do first."

It was a funny movie with parts that will have you on the floor.

The movie Monkey Business could have been pretty bad. I would say that it's saving grace is the fact that the people involved are all highly talented. Howard Hawks turns in some excellent direction per usual, although I'm sure he was only paying the bills. Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers are pitch perfect. Marilyn Monroe is essentially eye candy in this movie but she still steals every scene she is in, which unfortunately isn't very many.

The script was written by the highly respected Ben Hecht , Charles Lederer (of His Girl Friday fame) and I.A.L. Diamond (Some Like It Hot etc...). With so many excellent writers involved you know the script is going to be at least decent. Granted that a monkey discovering a potion for the fountain of youth is a pretty silly premise they managed to pull it off for the most part. The dialog is a bit awkward in places but overall very good and the script certainly got it's message across.

Cary Grant's performance makes this film. He perfectly embodies what a typical teenager and child of the age would be. Of course the scenes in which he takes the potion are the highlights of the film and he does an excellent job with them. He also has considerable chemistry with his female costars particularly Ginger Rogers (Who plays his wife).

Marilyn Monroe plays Grant's bosses slightly dim but wonderfully innocent secretary. Although she has limited screen time you cannot take your eyes off of her anytime she is in the shot. The sign of a great actress.

Overall a very charming film with a feel good message. 7/10

I love this film. I do prefer His Girl Friday, but this movie is wonderful. The production values are top notch, with lovely cinematography and costumes. The pace is snappy, and the story is wonderfully constructed with seldom a dull moment. Monkey Business is also brilliantly directed by Howard Hawks, the writing is superb and the acting is top notch. I have always loved Cary Grant, he was a very charming, urbane and likable actor, and he is sublime here. Ginger Rogers is also very good, it shows that she is just as good as acting as she is at dancing. It is Marilyn Monroe though who steals the show, very beautiful and sassy, she is delightful in Monkey Business. All in all, this movie is a delight and definitely worth the look. 10/10 Bethany Cox

This is a good movie featuring Cary Grant as the scientist who found a rejuvenating formula. Follows a series a wacky adventure for professor Fulton and his wife, played by Ginger Rogers. Top notch performances by Grant and Rogers, but also by Charles Coburn and beautiful Marilyn Monroe. And let's not forget the monkeys!

7 out of 10.

The cast includes some of the top masters of screwball comedy and is directed by the man who made BRINGING UP BABY--and yet this is not the bright and witty farce it strains to be.

Ironically, it's MARILYN MONROE, in the film's smallest role as a dimwit secretary, who steals the spotlight from CARY GRANT, GINGER ROGERS and CHARLES COBURN whenever she pops up...which isn't often enough. Superstardom was just around the corner and this film is proof that Monroe had the kind of charisma that charms even when her dialog is not that funny.

CARY GRANT does well in most of his scenes but the Indian romp with the boys is too unbelievable even for this far-fetched comic spoof. At times, he seems almost detached from his role. Poor HUGH MARLOWE looks mighty uncomfortable as a victim of the "let's play Indian" stunt. So much so, that one can only picture him wishing he was back in ALL ABOUT EVE.

GINGER ROGERS has an irritating sequence where she and Cary revisit their honeymoon hotel with disastrous results when she goes into a crying jag over the mention of her mother's name. Ginger only perks up when imitating an even more youthful version of her "Major and the Minor" role--but she is given only brief moments to shine. Coburn plays his role effortlessly and is especially amusing when referring to his secretary's lack of skills. "Anyone can type", he says of Monroe as she wriggles away.

But true wit is missing for most of the film and the laughs come at the expense of the two main stars who show a surprising lack of chemistry when thrown together.

The formula just doesn't work here. Something went wrong and it shows.

If you like good solid wacky comedy, this is a strong bet. An utterly silly movie, it makes me smile just thinking about it--I've seen it probably a dozen times. Cary Grant really was in a class by himself, managing to do virtually every genre, even though he seems to have been typecast by movie history--here he plays a hopelessly stuffy absent minded professor, after drinking a youth serum of improbable origin, he immediately becomes a teen ager from the early fifties. Changing on a dime, the transformation is hilarious.

Ginger Rogers, always really engaging, isn't give a lot to do as an adult, but she excels when regressing into a juvenile.

One thing--for anyone who really likes Marilyn Monroe (and who doesn't), this is a must see. Not because it's her best part, or because she has a lot of screen time, it isn't and she doesn't. But since she made this movie really before she became famous, it's instructive: the part is just another ditzy bombshell secretary, but something about her just jumps off the screen. This seems to me to be a great example of how there's an ineffable unexplainable quality of "screen presence". She manages to hold her own with Cary Grant, not an easy task for anyone, let alone some yet to be discovered starlet.

Now that we're in a gross out downward spiral for comedies, this might be the best tonic--a movie that's very silly, and very funny.

Written by Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, and IAL Diamond, Howard Hawks' Monkey Business feels like a combination of an Ealing Street Studios production like The Man in the White Suit with a Billy Wilder picture like One, Two, Three, run through the blender by Hawks himself. It's a light, silly, and entertaining little comedy anchored by two wonderfully physical performances from Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant. Hawks apparently had no love for the film, finding its central premise too preposterous to believe, but he cast well enough to make it work in its own limited way.

Grant plays Dr. Barnaby Fulton, a chemist working on a formula hoped to be the fountain of youth. Rogers plays his wife, Edwina, happy to have married a scientist who can end up completely destroying their evening plans because he can't get the issues with his formula out of his head long enough to get out the door. She finds him endearing as he obsesses over the mere 23% (or is it 27%?) absorption rate in his chimpanzee subjects. He has a new idea on how to make it work, and he prepares the new solution in the lab the next day. Here we are introduced to Marilyn Monroe's Lois, the secretary to Barnaby's boss. Barnaby has no interest in her, being happily married, beyond the effectiveness of a nylon stocking he developed that she's wearing.

After Barnaby finishes one part of his mixture and goes off into another room to set the different elements into different temperatures for the final mix, one of the chimpanzees gets out of her cage and begins playing with the liquids at Barnaby's station, eventually pouring it all into the water fountain. Barnaby drinks his own mixture then the water, eventually devolving to the mentality of a college student of the most rambunctious sort. He jumps out of the office window, gets a young man's haircut, buys a sports car, and ends up picking up Lois. He's carefree until the formula begins to wear off, He slouches his shoulders as he slows the car down and struggles to see, eventually crashing the car slightly. The change is all Grant just leaning into the change, and it's a fun little moment.

The tales of Barnaby's excursion spread to Edwina who listens with the calm of a wife who understands her husband's nature and work. When Barnaby insists that he must continue to experiment, she sneakily takes the larger dosage herself, also washing it down with water from the same fountain, and she becomes a college girl herself. This is Ginger Rogers' time to shine as she morphs into a younger woman in mentality, sneaking fish into Barnaby's boss's pants, dancing the night away at a club with an increasingly tired Barnaby, and becoming a nervous and shy young woman at the prospect of undressing in front of a grown man.

The whole experimental formula becomes an excuse for Grant and Rogers to act as increasingly younger children. It's easy to see where Hawks would concentrate on this project he didn't have much excitement for: allowing Rogers and Grant to discover comedic business to fill the screen with. The standout moment is when the two, having made a pot of coffee from the water fountain that they drink heavily, get younger than they have before, roughly 10 years old. Rogers balances a full cup on her forehead, descends to laying on the floor, and then rises up again to her feet without spilling a drop. It's not highlighted while all in one shot on the side of the screen with Grant taking up as much space, but it's a remarkable moment of physical comedy and prowess from Rogers.

The climax of the film is Barnaby's boss trying to figure out the formula from Barnaby's notes while Barnaby spends time with the local boys in an effort to kidnap and scalp the man from Edwina's past who's using the situation to try and get rid of Barnaby. While all of this is going on, Edwina becomes convinced that Barnaby has become a baby and doesn't know how to fix it, so she takes the baby back to the office. It's a rather madcap ending that sees the ante upped in fun ways all over the place, including the infantile Edwina deciding to go after Lois for being sweet on her husband.

Sure, Hawks' heart might not have been in it, but he knew enough of what he was doing to get the right pieces into the right places. Grant and Rogers are wonderful both alone and together, bringing wonderfully physical performances to their characters. The set pieces of comedy are consistently entertaining and amusing. It' may not be great entertainment, but it's surprisingly solid as a comedy.

Making it clear that Monkey Business wasn't a Marilyn Monroe's movie, as some Marilyn's fans less informed are finally understood, she is only the fourth top billing casting, this was designed for Cary Grant & Gingers Rogers vehicle romantic comedy with elements labeled as screwball also slapstick, just this movie was entered in a Marilyn Monroe especial Box-Set for she was among the mainly stars and also by financial reasons due she becomes a mega-star, then is quite suitable they adds this picture in Marilyn Monroe Collection.

The plot is plenty funny although leaving a feeling that is a dated picture, certainly palatable to fifties and upcoming decades, nowadays sounds a bit foolish to general audience, aside the sexy appearance of Marilyn who shines in those skirts displayed the perfect Marilyn's body shaped, gorgeous by the way in top form, to put it mildly.

In fact Ginger Rogers strives hard when he realize that Marilyn draws all attention to her, due in certain way her undeniable sexual attractiveness overshadowing the top billing actors and maybe the whole picture, the massive audience most probable went to the theatre to see the priceless Marilyn Monroe, aside that Charles Coburn once more proves at his best as comic actor, fits perfectly as bossy Oliver Oxley, in other hand Grant is great as always as stupendous and multilayered actor of all times.

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First watch: 2007 / How many: 2 / Source: Cable TV-DVD / Rating: 7.5.

I haven't seen this film for years,its very rarely on TV these days,which is a shame,i managed to get a copy on DVD,its always been one of the comedies I've wanted to own.The scene i always remembered best,was the one in which Cary Grant is playing cowboys and Indian's with the local children,and where Hank Entwhistle gets his just deserts,for being a smug playboy still trying to get Edwina.Ginger Rogers proved she could still dance and did a great comic turn,when she turns into a child.This film goes to show,that in them days they could make classic comedy without any foul language and without crudity,they didn't find any problem doing that.Marilyn Monroe provided the sexual interest in one of her more low key performances,and the plot only mildly focus on that,which is good.If you have never seen this film,and you like films from the early fifties,this is definitely worth a look.

I found "Monkey Business" to be an uneven comedy. It offers many hilarious and memorable moments (the monkey preparing the formula, for instance), but there are also a number of scenes which come to a standstill; many of them are the ones involving the professor and his wife. Cleverly written dialogue provides most of the fun, and the film leaves an overall good feeling. Considered a classic.

The first time I saw this movie, I was hysterical laughing half the time, and I've watched it twice again and still keep laughing! I don't know who was funnier, Cary Grant or Ginger Rogers, but they made quite a team as Barnaby and Edwina Fulton, whose rather humdrum marriage gets turned completely upside-down by a monkey-turned-chemist, who monkeys around with a youth pill formula! Havoc is wreaked, and it sure is fun!

I love to see familiar faces in films, and three of my favs are here: Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe and Larry Keating. Everyone gets caught up in the fountain of youth (or in this case, a water cooler) that's gone berserk!

Watch and have fun!

A stellar cast that includes Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, and a chimpanzee, direction by Howard Hawks, and a screenplay by Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, and I.A.L. Diamond, what could possibly go wrong? Plenty. Perhaps considered hilarious in 1952, "Monkey Business" is hopelessly dated, occasionally amusing, and often just plain silly. An absent minded professor, who seems more demented than distracted, concocts a mysterious formula that causes people to act younger. Of course, the formula is tested and gets loose via a water cooler. Stir in the chimp, a bunch of kids, and a baby, and the results are generally less than funny.

A chasm yawns between acting childlike and acting childish. In "Big," Tom Hanks beautifully captured the mannerisms, energy, and curiosity of a child in an adult's body. However, Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers do not act like children. Instead, they cavort like childish adults. The bookish professor that Grant plays would never have thrown paint around, pulled a girl's pigtails, or danced an Indian war dance as a child. He was probably as studious at ten as he was at 40. Unfortunately, Grant did not have Tom Hanks's nuanced performance to study, and he overacts wildly. Grant's turn here is arguably his worst since "Arsenic and Old Lace," which compensated with a terrific supporting cast and a funny script. Even worse, Rogers tries to keep pace with Grant's antics, and, speaking in a little girlish voice, her silliness is even more ridiculous than Grant's.

However, Marilyn Monroe in an early supporting role is the one sterling reason not to miss "Monkey Business." Marilyn never drinks the formula and remains the epitome of the dumb blonde throughout. But Monroe is no ordinary dumb blonde; she is sweet, vulnerable, and innocent. The screen grows brighter when she appears, and she is drop-dead gorgeous. When Marilyn hikes her skirt to show her acetate stockings to Grant, she is oblivious to the effect she has. Of course, a half century ago, sexism was rampant and tolerated, if not encouraged, and "Monkey Business" has more than its share. Charles Coburn, the geriatric laboratory boss, admits Monroe is there to look at, and Grant leers at her legs shamelessly. Ginger Rogers is no liberated woman either; she is the housewife with nothing to do but buy new dresses, plan social events, and care for her helpless husband.

Considering the credits, "Monkey Business" should have been an hilarious classic; unfortunately, the Marx Brothers film of the same title is much funnier. The Hawks film is notable only for the dazzling presence of a young Marilyn Monroe and little else. Even the chimp has done better work.

Monkey Business is a sort of late screwball comedy in which a scientist discovers a formula for returning people to their youth. The problem is that they become a little too youthful, and all hell breaks loose as a result. Directed by veteran Howard Hawks, co-authored by Ben Hecht, this is a funny if one joke film. Leading players Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers handle their parts capably, Charles Coburn is marvelous in a large (in all senses of that word) supporting role, and since it's a cliche to call Marilyn Monroe eye candy, I won't. Good fun all-round, the movie is in the end not as good as its thirties prototypes; some of the jokes go on for too long; and the repartee, such as the dialogue can be called, isn't as zingy as it might be. A good try, though, and intermittently hilarious.

Wacky, screwball fun. You can forget about the outrageous plot because everyone is just so much fun to watch. As a general rule, I don't like monkeys in movies - everything just gets too stupid. But it's done very well here and watching Esther (the monkey) make the elixir is just fascinating. It's hard to believe that's actually a monkey.

Ginger Rogers always seems to be a better actress when she's not with Fred Astaire, for some reason. And Cary Grant is always a good goof.

There is one uncomfortable scene (very un-PC) for a modern audience about a group of children playing cowboys and Indians, which may have kept this movie from being in the pantheon of classic screwball comedies.

I think I'd have loved this film when I was 9 or 10 but now I can only watch it in disbelief while I shake my head and mutter "Oh, come on!" A throwback to the 1930's screwball comedies, this has a very flimsy plot which allows the aging cast to act like complete nincompoops, particularly as the film goes on.

I'd say that Cary Grant (a screwball comedy veteran) and Ginger Rogers had zero chemistry as the married couple and I also thought Charles Coburn uncharacteristically walked through a part he did many times before in better movies. But I think Marilyn stole the picture whenever she appeared, not that it was that difficult to do in this case.

We were not amused!