No Monkey Business

No Monkey Business
Directed by	Thomas Bentley
Produced by	Julius Haimann C. M. Woolf
Written by	Joe May Károly Nóti Roger Burford Val Guest
Starring	Gene Gerrard June Clyde Renée Houston Richard Hearne
Music by	Hans May Benjamin Frankel
Cinematography	Claude Friese-Greene
Edited by	Edward B. Jarvis
Production company	Radius Productions
Distributed by	General Film Distributors
Release dates	12 November 1935
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

No Monkey Business is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Gene Gerrard, June Clyde and Renée Houston.^[1]

Synopsis

After a music hall performer has his performing partner, an ape, confiscated by his financial creditors he persuades his assistant to dress up and impersonate the animal so that he can continue his act. However a series of embarressments arise when they are invited to stay at a country house by a young woman who wishes to demonstrate to her father her theory that apes are as intelligent as people.

Production

The film was made by the independent company Radius Productions at the British and Dominion Studios at Elstree.

Cast

Gene Gerrard – Jim Carroll
June Clyde – Clare Barrington
Renée Houston – Jessie
Richard Hearne – Charlie
Peter Haddon – Arthur
Claude Dampier – Roberts
Hugh Wakefield – Prof. Barrington
Fred Duprez – Theater Manager
Clifford Heatherley – Bailiff
O. B. Clarence – Professor
Robert Nainby – Professor
Reuben Castang - Ape Trainer
Alexander Field - Greengrocer
Hal Gordon - Circus Proprietor
Wally Patch - Stage Hand
Charles Paton - Lodging House Keeper

References

↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44413

Bibliography

Sutton, David R. A chorus of raspberries: British film comedy 1929–1939. University of Exeter Press, 2000.

External links

No Monkey Business at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Marcel Varnel

The Silent Witness (1932)
Chandu the Magician (1932)
Infernal Machine (1933)
Freedom of the Seas (1934)
Girls Will Be Boys (1934)
Royal Cavalcade (1935)
Dance Band (1935)
The Loves of Madame Dubarry (1935)
No Monkey Business (1935)
All In (1936)
Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936)
Good Morning, Boys (1937)
Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)
Convict 99 (1938)
Alf's Button Afloat (1938)
Hey! Hey! USA (1938)
Old Bones of the River (1938)
Ask a Policeman (1939)
The Frozen Limits (1939)
Where's That Fire? (1940)
O-Kay for Sound (1940)
Band Waggon (1940)
Let George Do It! (1940)
Neutral Port (1940)
Gasbags (1941)
The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)
Turned Out Nice Again (1941)
I Thank You (1941)
South American George (1941)
Hi Gang! (1941)
Much Too Shy (1942)
King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942)
Get Cracking (1943)
He Snoops to Conquer (1944)
Bell-Bottom George (1944)
I Didn't Do It (1945)
George in Civvy Street (1946)
This Man Is Mine (1946)

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