Monkey Business (1931 film) Chico give opera singer Madame Swempski (Cecil Cunningham). According to Turner Classic Movies' Robert Osborne, a sequel was planned for this film that would continue the gangster theme. During the development of that film, aviator Charles Lindbergh's son was kidnapped and killed by what was believed to be gangsters. The writers quickly shifted gears and based the brothers' next film very loosely on the Marx Brothers' earlier stage show "Fun in Hi Skule", which would evolve into "Horse Feathers". Monkey Business (1931 film) Monkey Business is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film. It is the third of the Marx Brothers'
Commotion on the Ocean microfilm of State Department documents, which Chambers had concealed in a hollowed-out pumpkin on his Maryland farm. As Shemp Howard had already died, for his last four films ("Rumpus in the Harem", "Hot Stuff", "Scheming Schemers" and "Commotion on the Ocean"), Columbia utilized supporting actor Joe Palma to be Shemp's double. Even though the last four shorts were remakes of earlier Shemp efforts, Palma's services were needed to link what few new scenes were filmed to the older stock footage.It is also the final film to feature Shemp as a stooge. He would be replaced with Joe Besser in the