Honey i'm getting younger
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Honey i'm getting younger |
| Original title | Monkey business |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1952 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Howard Hawks |
| script |
Ben Hecht , IAL Diamond |
| production | Sol C. Siegel |
| music | Leigh Harline |
| camera | Milton R. Krasner |
| cut | William B. Murphy |
| occupation | |
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Darling, I'm Getting Younger (Original Title: Monkey Business ) is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Howard Hawks .
action
The married chemist Dr. Barnabas Fulton is working on a remedy that should make you younger. So far, none of the tinctures he has mixed has achieved the desired success, so that he is working on the last, promising step every minute. At home, while eating soup that is too hot, the idea occurs to him to heat the agent.
One day, however, Dr. Barnabas Fulton called to his boss, Mr. Oliver Oxley, eager to finally get a rejuvenating formulation from Dr. Get Fulton. Except for the recipe, it even has a name and an advertising poster. Dr. Fulton reveals to Mr. Oxley that he has a new idea to give the preparation the desired effect. During the conversation, a member of staff calls Mr. Oxley's office to say that the drug appears to work on the (in chimpanzee years) 84-year-old experimental chimpanzee Rudolf. However, it quickly turns out that an employee of the laboratory, while washing the two experimental chimpanzees, mistook Rudolf's vest for that of the much younger newcomer.
A new tincture is mixed and heated and another, untreated one, treated by an employee in another laboratory in the traditional way, as before. While Dr. Fulton looks at the progress and leaves the laboratory with the chimpanzees, Rudolf escapes his cage again by simply removing the unlocked security lock and contacting Dr. Fulton's place and re-enacts what he saw minutes before: How Dr. Fulton mixes different solutions. However, the chimpanzee randomly selects bottles that are standing around and tips everything together. Then he hides the solution in the water dispenser, which is receiving a new bottle. So the water mixes with the solution mixed by the chimpanzee.
Back at the laboratory, Dr. Fulton uses his new, heated solution on himself and rinses it with water from the water dispenser. Because of the solution that the chimpanzee dumped in, the water tastes bitter, which Dr. Fulton attributes to his previously taken solution. He asks one of his employees to keep an accurate record of changes, which happens quickly. Dr. Fulton feels dizzy and after a short while he no longer needs his heavy glasses and his rheumatism is gone too. He now feels “like a 20 year old”.
After a visit to the hairdresser, a suit and a car purchase, he immediately kidnaps Mr. Oxley's young, attractive secretary and takes a long and daring drive until he finally arrives at the laboratory again and the effects wear off. His eyes get worse again and he gets tired.
Back in the laboratory, he lies down on his couch in the office and sleeps. Meanwhile, his excited wife, Edwina, comes to the laboratory because he was out all day and couldn't be found. She wakes him up and makes him aware of his new look, which he put on in his youthful intoxication. She also draws his attention to the lipstick on the face of Miss Laurel, Mr. Oxley's secretary. In spite of his excursion and the flattery of the secretary, Edwina also takes the solution and then drinks the water mixed with the solution. So she also rejuvenates and plans a trip with Mr. Fulton to a distant hotel where the couple spent their wedding night. She wants to dance there all night, which is overworking Mr. Fulton.
After an argument, both of them leave old again. Edwina's mother and divorce attorney Hank, whom she had consulted during the argument and who had previously shown a romantic interest in Edwina, are waiting in the house. But after it has been clarified that there was a misunderstanding while taking the solution, both drive to the laboratory and first make a coffee with the water and the solution. At the same time, Mr. Oxley initiates a board meeting and wants to know the exact composition of Mr. Fulton, who is now a little boy mentally. The gathering turns into a farce, as Mr. and Mrs. Fulton play around childishly and do not engage in normal conversation. So they both flee home, where they fight again. Mrs. Fulton calls Hank again, who promises to come. Mr. Fulton hears this and, after changing clothes in the bedroom, he and a couple of children playing in the area decide to tie Hank to the torture stake in the garden and massacre him.
Meanwhile, the solution stops working on Edwina and she goes to sleep. A neighbor's baby, who was sitting in the garden, crawls into the bedroom without clothes and lies down next to Mrs. Fulton, who wakes up wearing Dr. Fulton sees and now holds the baby lying next to her for her husband.
In shock, she drives back to the laboratory to get an antidote from her husband's staff and thus get her husband back. The only evidence of the end of the effects seems tiredness and sleep, which is why Edwina moved the baby into Dr. Fulton lays down on the couch. The other scientists wait in front of the door and drink water from the dispenser. Mr. Oxley instructs the scientists to destroy the bitter and what he suspects bad water and to wash out the dispenser. Meanwhile, the police come to Dr. Fulton, who was to look for him on the instructions of Mr. Oxley. The latter flees into the office and lies down next to the baby. When Edwina finally notices this and brings him to the other scientists and Mr. Oxley, they have of course all drunk the water and the effect is fully developed. Enthusiastic about the effect, Dr. Fulton signed a contract with Mr. Oxley.
Finally, Mr. and Mrs. Fulton get ready for an evening out. Edwina argues whether she would go through such three days again, to which Barnabas replies that he has found a new remedy. This would have nothing to do with chemistry and if it were a word that you carry in your heart. He hugs his wife and asks if she would like the drug.
synchronization
The synchronized version was created for the German cinema premiere in 1953 at Ultra Film Synchron GmbH in Berlin. The premiere itself fell on April 17, 1953.
| role | actor | German Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Barnaby Fulton | Cary Grant | Paul Klinger |
| Mrs. Edwina Fulton | Ginger Rogers | Edith Schneider |
| Mr. Oliver Oxley | Charles Coburn | Walter Werner |
| Miss Lois Laurel | Marilyn Monroe | Margot Leonard |
| Hank Entwistle | Hugh Marlowe | Curt Ackermann |
Reviews
"A typical Hawks comedy, turbulent, original and laid out as an intellectual farce that packs its criticism of 'youth cult' and rejuvenation cures in disarming nonsense."
"In his brilliant screwball comedy, Howard Hawks presents the otherwise elegant Cary Grant as a silly child - hilarious!"
“An unadorned and breathless comedy that paints a limitlessly gloomy picture of humanity: the escalating joke is inversely proportional to the stupidity not only of the test subjects, the only way out is anarchy. Truly mercilessly funny and masterfully interpreted not only by the almighty Grant, Mrs. Rogers as well as Charles Coburn, who does not pick up any embarrassment, and a cute pin-up named Marilyn Monroe. "
“This Howard Hawks masterpiece is a brilliant screwball comedy and one of the funniest entries on the subject of eternal youth. Here you can also tell from the actors that they had fun being able to be a child again in some scenes. The sometimes hearty dialogues are particularly good. "
“Marilyn Monroe, who is described by Grant as“ still half a child ”(to which Ginger Rogers counters:“ But not the visible half! ”), Has something in her posture and in her walk that must be called suggestive. What she suggests is something that this film is about most of the time, with or without rejuvenation. "
"Monkey Business is one of the best comedies of the year."
Awards
Ginger Rogers was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1953 for Best Actress in a Comedy .
Web links
- Monkey Business in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Monkey Business atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Darling, I'm getting younger on Cinema.de (with film images)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Darling, I'm getting younger at synchrondatenbank.de, accessed on April 18, 2020
- ↑ Darling, I'm getting younger in the German dubbing index , accessed on April 18, 2020
- ↑ Darling, I'm Getting Younger, from the Lexicon of International Films , accessed August 15, 2008
- ↑ http://www.cinema.de/film_aktuell/filmdetail/film/?typ=inhalt&film_id=119090
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
