Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everybody's Welcome is a musi-comedy version of last season's comedy Up Pops the Devil, which retains just enough of the original story & dialog to provide Frances Williams, Oscar Shaw, Jack Sheehan and Cecil Lean with an adequate background for their monkey business. Love in a Greenwich Village flat becomes love in a penthouse, with the Empire State Building (minus the new red light) instead of the moon looking benevolently through the window. Mild satire on the writing business becomes broad burlesque of the giant "Proxy" cinemansion. A minor character in the original play becomes Frances...
...Monkey Business (Paramount). This picture begins when a first mate on an ocean liner tells the captain that there are four hidden stowaways on board. "How do you know there are four?" asks the captain. "They are singing 'Sweet Adeline,' " says the mate. Routed from the barrels in which they have secreted themselves, the Marx Brothers undertake to distress the other passengers. Harpo, on a kiddy-car, slides about the deck with evil looks for all. He captures and becomes the friend of a frog, which he keeps in his hat. He carries a cane which...
Like other Marx Brothers pictures (The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers), Monkey Business makes as little sense as possible. For this and other reasons, admirers of the Marx Brothers will find it marvellously funny. Admirers of Harpo Marx who, when he smiles, looks like a maniacal Charlie Chaplin, will be particularly pleased. He is still the funniest as well as the most versatile Marx. Young Zeppo is more active than usual but he seems a dullard in comparison to his funnier brothers. Zeppo (Herbert) Marx has always been embarrassed by the necessity for playing pallid roles which cause spectators to say that...
Fenway and Modern--"Monkey Business", the latest wise-cracks of the Four Marx Brothers...
...Although to a blind-folded spectator the animal noises would be indistinguishable from those of a defective steam radiator, they are effective and even terrifying when combined with good photography. Morbid shots: a man being devoured by alligators in the potentate's pond; a tiger pouncing on a monkey in the rear of the potentate's palace...