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Auction History Result 1h089 MONKEY BUSINESS style Y 40x60 1952 Grant, Rogers, sexy Marilyn Monroe, Coburn, ultra-rare! Date Sold 11/10/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Style Y Forty by Sixty Movie Poster (40x60; measures 40" x 60" [102 x 152 cm]) (Learn More) Howard Hawks' Monkey Business (released in some countries as "Darling I'm Growing Younger", because apparently "Monkey Business" meant nothing in other countries!), the 1952 Howard Hawks fantasy Fountain-of-Youth screwball comedy ("This is Monkey Business... And this is Monkey Business and this is Monkey Business... And of course this is Monkey Business... And thereby hangs a tale!"; "Monkey Business is some fun!"; "Story by Harry Segall"; "Screen Play by Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer and I.A.L. Diamond"; a truly wacky story of an inventor trying to find a "youth serum", and he experiments on chimps, and one of the chimps escapes and manages to create the serum, which the scientist then accidentally takes, and he becomes like a teenager, and then so does his wife!) starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe (in a small role as a sexy secretary hired by the now "youthful" Cary Grant), Hugh Marlowe, Henri Letondal, Robert Cornthwaite, Larry Keating, Douglas Spencer, Esther Dale, and George Winslow. Note that after Marilyn Monroe's great success at the start of the 1950s, 20th Century-Fox, who had her under contract, wisely found small parts for her in lots of their movies in 1951 and 1952! Also, note that there is a Marx Bros. movie from 1931 called "Monkey Business", but it has nothing to do with this movie. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster. We have never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning! In addition, note that while this poster has a very similar image to most of the other posters from this title, it has more color (and better coloring) than the other posters. Interestingly, Marilyn Monroe is wearing a red dress in this poster, but a black dress in the others! Condition: good to very good. The poster has slight discoloration mainly around the edges (there are few more noticeable stains along portions of the lower edge) and there is some slight discoloration at lower right (to the left of Monroe and in a small portion of her chest and right arm, but the area is not very noticeable or distracting - see our image). It has a few drip stains at center. It has a few more minor edge defects and a few creases and light scuff marks typical of many 40x60s of this period that were likely displayed at a theater. The ultra-rare poster is otherwise in generally nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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