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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.
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- Comedy, Family, Romance
- Frederick De Cordova
- 1951-04-05
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.
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.
- Frederick De Cordova, Joe Kenny
- Ronald Reagan
After Professor Peter Boyd (Ronald Reagan) proposes to the Dean's daughter, he tries to win his approval and adopts a chimp to test the theory of evolution in this comedy. 184 IMDb 5.5 1 h 24 min 1951. X-Ray 13+. Comedy · Romance. Available to rent or buy.
When Professor Peter Boyd's father-in-law to be objects to his heredity, Peter attempts to prove nurture trumps nature by raising a chimp named Bonzo to have good morals; and to assist him he ...
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Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
