Monkey Business

Marilyn Monroe shines as a not-so-sharp secretary in this screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers.

  • Director

    Howard Hawks

  • With

    Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn

  • USA 1952. 97min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    U

A scientist is attempting to develop an elixir of youth when one of his laboratory chimpanzees escapes and creates a new mixture with hilarious consequences. Grant and Rogers are on superb comic form, with Monroe matching them as a scatterbrained secretary caught up in the antics. She particularly enjoys a sweet dynamic with Grant and sneaks in some of the film’s best lines.

Contains scenes of racism.

The screening of Monkey Business on Monday 1 June will be introduced by BFI Programme and Research Coordinator Giulia Saccogna.