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Bedtime for Bonzo is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Frederick de Cordova released in USA on 5 april 1951 with Ronald Reagan

Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)

Bedtime for Bonzo
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Released in USA 5 april 1951
Length 1h23
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Romance
Rating55% 2.755672.755672.755672.755672.75567

Bedtime for Bonzo is a 1951 comedy film directed by Frederick de Cordova, starring future U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, and Peggy as Bonzo. It revolves around the attempts of the central character, psychology professor Peter Boyd (Ronald Reagan), to teach human morals to a chimpanzee, hoping to solve the "nature versus nurture" question. He hires a woman, Jane Linden (Diana Lynn), to pose as the chimp's mother while he plays father to it, and uses 1950s-era child rearing techniques.

This movie is one of the most remembered of Reagan's acting career and renewed his popularity as a movie star for a while. Reagan, however, never even saw the film until 1984.

A sequel was released entitled Bonzo Goes to College (1952), but featured none of the three lead performers from the original. Peggy died in a zoo fire two weeks after the premier of Bedtime for Bonzo; another chimp was hired for the second film whose name really was "Bonzo". Reagan did not want to work on the second film; he thought the premise was silly.

Synopsis

C'est l'histoire d'un professeur, Peter Boyd, qui réalise des expériences secrètes pour prouver une théorie qu'il approuve. Pour ce faire, le professeur va se servir du département des chimpanzés de sa faculté.

Actors

Ronald Reagan

(Professor Peter Boyd)Diana Lynn

(Jane)Walter Slezak

(Professor Hans Neumann)Jesse White

(Babcock)Lucille Barkley

(Valerie Tillinghast)
And :
Ann Tyrrell
Elmer Bradley "Brad" Johnson
Herbert Heyes
Edward Gargan
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