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It is a sequel to the 1937 film Topper. Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, and Alan Mowbray reprised their roles from the earlier film; only Cary Grant was missing (other than in a few shots taken from Topper).
The second sequel, Topper Returns, was not adapted from Smith’s books. The Topper books were also made into a television series in America that began in 1953. Actor Leo Carroll was chosen to play the role of Cosmo Topper, while Anne Jeffreys and Robert Sterling played the role of the ghosts.
Topper (1926, copyright renewed 1953 – also known as The Jovial Ghosts). This and its sequel, Topper Takes a Trip (1932, set in the French Riviera), are probably Smith's most famous work, about a respectable banker called Cosmo Topper, married to his depressingly staid wife Mary, and his misadventures with a couple of ghosts , Marion and ...
The critical and financial returns on Topper made a sequel an inevitability, and producer Hal Roach managed to reunite almost all of the principals for Topper Takes a Trip (1939). Grant's services were unavailable, and George Kerby's presence in the movie was therefore limited to stock footage in the opening recap.
- Norman Z. Mcleod, Earl Rettig
- Constance Bennett
This is the sequel to Topper. It lacks much of the compassion of its predecessor, and it's darker while at the same time being sillier. Still, it's pretty funny.
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TOPPER generated two sequels, one with Constance Bennett returning as Marion Kerby (Cary Grant by this time was a top star and only loaned out archive footage of himself from this film) in TOPPER TAKES A TRIP (1939) and TOPPER RETURNS, sans Bennett.
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A sequel, "Topper Takes a Trip" (1932), records the further ribald escapades of Topper and the Kerbys on the French Riviera. The improbable trio went on to inspire several movies, notably the 1937 film Topper (1937) starring Cary Grant and Constance Bennett, as well as a hit television series Topper (1953)). Following the success of "Topper ...
