Film Forum

U.S., 1952
Directed by Howard Hawks
Starring Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn
Approx. 97 min.

“Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant reunited, in a film which looks back to screwball’s heyday and especially to BRINGING UP BABY. Barnaby Fulton (Grant) is working on a youth formula for a chemical company, but lab monkeys monkey around with the potion. The resulting elixir sends Barnaby and his wife Edwina (Rogers) spiraling back to their wild teens and beyond, with Marilyn Monroe’s curvaceous secretary Miss Laurel causing a certain amount of bad blood between them.” – BFI

Presented with support from The Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s

Reviews

“...whizzes joyfully along with touches of pure genius: at once sublimely innocent and entirely worldly.”
– The Guardian