Monkey Business (1931 film) Monkey Business (1931 film) Monkey Business is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film. It is the third of the Marx Brothers' released movies, and the first with an original screenplay rather than an adaptation of one of their Broadway shows. The film also stars Thelma Todd. It is directed by Norman Z. McLeod with screenplay by S. J. Perelman and Will B. Johnstone. Much of the story takes place in on an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean. On board an ocean liner to America, four stowaways are involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters
Príncipe de Asturias (ocean liner) Príncipe de Asturias (ocean liner) Príncipe de Asturias was a Spanish ocean liner, owned by the Naviera Pinillos and built at the Russell & Co. (later Lithgows) shipyard in Port Glasgow, in Scotland; being launched in 1914. She was named after the "Prince of Asturias", the historical title given to the heir to the Spanish Crown. "Príncipe de Asturias" and her elder sister "Infanta Isabel", launched in 1912, were at the time of her construction two of the largest passenger steamship in the Spanish merchant fleet, only second to "Reina Victoria Eugenia" and "Infanta Isabel de Borbón" owned by Pinillos's