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Constance Bennett: Cosmo Topper
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Marion and George Kerby (Constance Bennett and Cary Grant) are a couple of fun-loving ghosts who try to liven up the stuffy bank president Cosmo Topper. As Cosmo starts to learn how to have fun, it causes problems with his equally serious wife (Billie Burke). A delightful screwball comedy.
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Constance Bennett was an American actress. She appeared in 21 movies, including "Topper," in which she starred opposite Cary Grant. She was ... a businesswoman who designed a line of clothing for a Cincinnati dressmaker.
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Cary Grant and Constance Bennett gave brilliant performances as the two ghosts who haunt their former banker. Cosmo Topper. Roland Young's characterization provided the perfect foil for the antics of the late, rich and highly sophisticated Kerbys. Brilliant special effects, done "in the camera" decades before the invention of sophisticaated bluescreen techniques, credit the technical artistry of the Hal Roach staff and make the film stand up as well in 1980's as it did almost fifty years ago.
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A classic screwball comedy with a supernatural twist, Topper stars the incomparable Cary Grant and sparkling Constance Bennett as George and Marion Kirby, a fun-loving couple who cap an evening of jazz and champagne by running their car into a tree. They return as ghosts with a mandate to liven up the straight-laced hen-pecked life of bank president Cosmo Topper (Roland Young), who's hungry for just such a shake-up. Before long he's boozing, dancing, and getting into fights, all of which gives him a rakish reputation--much to the consternation of his wife (Billie Burke, best known as Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz). --Bret Fetzer
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In the early 1930s, after the termination of this marriage, Constance returned to films, specializing in fallen woman roles before switching to light comedy in such films as The Affairs of Cellini (1934) and Topper (1937). At one point she was the highest paid actress in Hollywood. In 1945 she became a producer, bankrolling a film titled Paris Underground, in which she co-starred with British musical favorite Gracie Fields.
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Follow-up to the scintillating "Topper", with Roland Young again in the title role of a meek banker who keeps getting into scrapes, aided by his fun-loving, ghostly companion Constance Bennett. Billie Burke returns as Mrs. Topper, and Cary Grant appears in a few scenes taken from the original film.
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