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
Ocean liner ocean liner in service was , built in 2003–04, used for both point-to-point line voyages and for cruises. Four ocean liners that were made before World War II survive today as they have been preserved as museums, and hotels. The Japanese ocean liner "Hikawa Maru", has been preserved in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Japan, as a museum ship, since 1961. was preserved in 1967 after her retirement, and became a museum/hotel in Long Beach, California. In the 1970s, was also preserved, and now resides in Bristol, England as another museum. The latest ship to undergo preservation is , which is to become