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Bedtime for Bonzo is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Fred de Cordova and starring Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, and a chimpanzee named Peggy as Bonzo. Its central character, psychology professor Peter Boyd (Reagan), tries to teach human morals to a chimpanzee, hoping to solve the "nature versus nurture" question. Boyd hires Jane Linden ...
Bedtime for Bonzo: Directed by Frederick De Cordova. With Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, Walter Slezak, Lucille Barkley. A college professor attempts to salvage his personal and professional reputation by using a laboratory chimpanzee to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.
Dean Tillinghast (Herbert Heyes), a firm believer in heredity, opposes their impending marriage on the grounds that Peter's father was a notorious criminal. Peter sets out to prove environment is more important than heredity by training the science department's chimpanzee in moral values.
Sep 17, 2012 · Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) "Other candidates for political stardom may have scandals lurking in their past, or have shifted greatly on issues to their occasional embarrassment, but only Ronald...
Bedtime for Bonzo was a box-office hit that momentarily boosted Reagan's career (he starred opposite Doris Day in The Winning Team [1952] the next year), but he was soon back in B-westerns and TV work and soon left acting for good to concentrate on politics.
A professor (Ronald Reagan) hires a nanny (Diana Lynn) to help him raise a chimp, hoping to decide nature vs. nurture.
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