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  • Monkey Business (1915)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
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Monkey Business (1915)
Short | Short, Comedy
When Gerald returns from an African trip he brings a young monkey which he has captured and tamed, intending to present it as a pet to his fiancée, Geraldine. Obliged to stop in New York a few days on business, Gerald tries to smuggle the ...See moreWhen Gerald returns from an African trip he brings a young monkey which he has captured and tamed, intending to present it as a pet to his fiancée, Geraldine. Obliged to stop in New York a few days on business, Gerald tries to smuggle the monkey into a hotel but Jocko creates excitement. Gerald decides to ship the monkey to Geraldine immediately. The crate containing Jocko arrives in Geraldine's town in due time and on the same day. Geraldine receives a letter from Gerald saying he is sending her a pet and beseeching her to "take good care of the poor little thing." He also says that he "shot its mother." He neglects to state that the pet is a monkey. That's one cause of the mix-up that follows. While the box containing Jocko reposes in the baggage room and the baggageman is away on his lunch hour, a very large, fat colored lady with a very small black pickaninny falls asleep while waiting for the up train. The black baby wanders away to explore. It's not long before the pickaninny is in the monkey crate and the monkey is free. Then many things happen. The pickaninny is delivered to Geraldine, the monkey wanders where no monkey has ever wandered before and soon the old town is in a turmoil. Gerald arrives and is caught in the vortex, as it were. Of course, things are finally straightened out, but no one would have thought that one monkey and one pickaninny could have caused such a furor. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Joseph Kaufman
Writer
A. Van Buren Powell (story)
Producer
Siegmund Lubin
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Updated Mar 30, 1915
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Mar 30, 1915 (United States)

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