Note the dignified expression on his face never leaves. Coburn may have been one of the screen's greatest actors, he'd have to have been to hold his own with that baby. Second to that is Charles Coburn and Ginger Rogers trying to talk to an infant who they think Cary has morphed into. 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. Monkey Business does meander over into just plain outright silliness, but with Cary and Ginger you don't really mind. 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. A chimpanzee gets loose from her cage and mixes some chemicals and dumps the result in the water-cooler.

Cary is a research scientist who is working on that eternal quest for the fountain of youth. 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. Ginger Rogers doesn't yield one inch of screen ground to him in that department though. Not since that madcap piece was Grant ever so frantic on the screen. 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. 'Monkey Business' may be no masterpiece, but it's good fun of the pleasantly offbeat kind that is rare anymore. 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.

Charles Coburn is perfect as Grant's boss, and he gets a couple of the best lines in the whole show. 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. 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. 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. The story is pleasantly zany, the characters are entertaining, and the stars were all perfectly chosen for their roles.

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. This is a very good movie to watch when all you want to do is to have a good time and some good laughs.

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