Show Business

1932
20m

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

156

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Slapstick Comedy Short

The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

156

YOUR RATING

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Zasu Pitts

Zasu Pitts

Thelma Todd

Thelma Todd

Anita Garvin

Anita Garvin

Monte Collins

Collins

Bobby Burns

Train Passenger in Lower Berth
(uncredited)

Otto Fries

Policeman
(uncredited)

Paulette Goddard

Blonde Train Passenger
(uncredited)

Carlton Griffin

Train Passenger
(uncredited)

Charlie Hall

Train Passenger
(uncredited)

Lois January

Showgirl on Train
(uncredited)

Hayes E. Robertson

Train Porter
(uncredited)

Lyle Tayo

Woman on Stairs
(uncredited)

Dorothy Vernon

Mrs. Finn - Landlady
(uncredited)

Director
- Jules White
Writer
- H.M. Walker
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Quotes
Collins: Oh, Miss Garvin, I've something to show to you. Just look at that beautiful ad!
Anita Garvin: It's terrible! Look at the size of that print. Why you can't even read my name. That sort of thing is alright for Ethel Barrymore or Gloria Swanson. But not for Garvin!

Connections
Followed by Alum and Eve (1932)

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Featured review

5/10

Monkey on their backs

Show Business is the profession that Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts are in, playing second and third banana to a trained monkey. They get a chance to go to the Pacific coast but with the monkey and with snooty musical comedy star Anita Garvin.

Through a combination of circumstances the monkey decides it wants to ride with the rest of Garvin's troupe. Think of Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in drag in Some Like It Hot. They had a sense of discretion that the monkey does not.

I have to say that both Thelma and Zasu are much upstaged by their little friend in Show Business.