As she has developed romantic feelings for Peter, Jane is so shocked that she allows Bonzo to escape on his tricycle. The dean warns that Bonzo is to be sold to Yale University for medical research, and Jane overhears Peter and the animal handler discussing the imminent end of the experiment. Valerie arrives on the scene just as the firemen are helping them down and misreads the situation, angrily returning Peter's ring. Bonzo jumps back into the house and dials the emergency services as he has been instructed to do, but he then returns to the tree and removes the ladder, leaving Jane stranded until Peter can help her. Bonzo inadvertently turns on the vacuum cleaner and leaps out of the window in alarm, climbing a tree, where Jane follows him. As Peter believes equally strongly in the opposite theory of environment, he aims to prove that he can raise a chimpanzee as one would a human child in a law-abiding household.Īfter acquiring a chimpanzee named Bonzo from an animal handler, Peter recruits a nanny named Jane, and they act as Bonzo's parents, teaching him good habits. When the dean discovers that Peter is the son of a former criminal, he forbids the marriage, declaring Peter's blood to be tainted, in line with his strong belief in heredity as an influence on character. Valerie, a college dean's daughter, is engaged to the dean's colleague Peter, a psychology professor. Reagan did not want to appear in the second film as he thought that the premise was unbelievable. Peggy, who had also appeared in My Friend Irma Goes West (1950), died in a fire on March 4, 1951, so another chimpanzee was hired for the second film. Ī sequel was released titled Bonzo Goes to College (1952), but it featured none of the three lead performers from the original film. Boyd hires Jane Linden (Lynn) to pose as the chimpanzee's mother while he plays father to it and uses 1950s-era child-rearing techniques. Its central character, psychology professor Peter Boyd (Reagan), tries to teach human morals to a chimpanzee, hoping to solve the " nature versus nurture" question. Reagan's death in 2004 eliminated those concerns.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. Naftali wrote the racist portion of Reagan's conversation with Nixon was originally withheld to protect Reagan's privacy. cannibals on television last night, and he says, 'Christ, they weren't even wearing shoes, and here the United States is going to submit its fate to that,' and so forth and so on." "As you can imagine," Nixon said to Rogers, "there's strong feeling that we just shouldn't, as said, he saw these. In another phone call later on the same day, Nixon discusses his conversation with Reagan with then-Secretary of State William Rogers. Nixon can be heard laughing as Reagan speaks. "To see those, those monkeys from those African Countries - damn them, they're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!" 26, 1971 after the United Nations voted to recognize the People's Republic of China. "Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did," Reagan, then the governor of California, said to Nixon during a call Oct. The tapes were published in The Atlantic by Tim Naftali, the former director of Nixon's Presidential Library. Ronald Reagan in a newly unearthed phone call with then-President Richard Nixon can be heard disparaging "monkeys" from African countries.
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