Monkey Business (1931 film) the film, and that Eddie Cantor contributed when he visited the set during shooting Typical for many Marx Brothers films, production censors demanded changes in some lines with sexual innuendo. "Monkey Business" was banned in some countries because censors feared it would encourage anarchic tendencies. This is the first Marx Brothers film not to feature Margaret Dumont: this time their female foil is comedian Thelma Todd, who would also star in the Marx Brothers' next film, "Horse Feathers". A few years later, in December 1935, Todd died in unexplained circumstances. A line of dialogue in "Monkey Business" seems to foreshadow
Emil and the Detectives (1931 film) the notion of smart, organised schoolkids chasing a criminal in the big city." There are several film adaptions of "Emil and the Detectives". The British 1935 film and the German 1954 film are direct remakes of this 1931 film, using most of Wilder's screenplay and (in the case of the 1935 film) even recreating many of the same camera shots. Emil and the Detectives (1931 film) Emil and the Detectives () is a 1931 German adventure film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Rolf Wenkhaus. It is based on the 1929 novel by Erich Kästner, who also contributed to the