No Monkey Business

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

1. ↑ 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