Monkey Business

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film screwball comedy film

Monkey Business is a 1952 screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, best known for starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, and Marilyn Monroe in a zany story about a youth-restoring formula gone awry.

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	film → screwball comedy film →
basedOn	story by Harry Segall →
character	Barnaby Fulton → Edwina Fulton → Lois Laurel → Mr. Oxley →
cinematography	Milton R. Krasner →
colorProcess	black-and-white →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	Howard Hawks →
distributor	Twentieth Century-Fox →
editor	William Hornbeck NERFINISHED →
features	office workplace setting → youth-restoring chemical formula →
filmingLocation	Los Angeles →
genre	comedy film → screwball comedy →
hasHumorStyle	situational comedy → slapstick →
hasTheme	aging → marital relationships → scientific experimentation gone wrong →
language	English →
leadActor	Cary Grant →
leadActress	Ginger Rogers →
mainSubject	youth-restoring formula →
motionPictureRating	Approved (Production Code era) →
musicBy	Leigh Harline →
narrativeLocation	United States →
partOf	American screwball comedy tradition → Howard Hawks filmography →
producer	Sol C. Siegel →
productionCompany	Twentieth Century-Fox →
publicationDate	1952 →
releaseFormat	theatrical release →
runtime	97 minutes →
screenwriter	Ben Hecht → Charles Lederer → I. A. L. Diamond →
setInPeriod	contemporary 1950s →
starring	Cary Grant → Ginger Rogers → Marilyn Monroe →
supportingActor	Marilyn Monroe →
timePeriodOfWork	20th century →
title	Monkey Business →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ginger Rogers → Marx Brothers →	notableWork
Herman J. Mankiewicz →	screenwriterFor