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20 Movies: Topper (1937)

by Bill on August 19, 2010

This was a movie I knew absolutely nothing about when I picked it up. I watched it and found it was one of the funniest movies I had seen in ages. This surprised me because of its age. There are a lot of movies that amuse me but not many that actually make me laugh. [...]

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What Topper meant to Cary Grant

by Bill on July 19, 2009

Although the movie Topper, despite it’s summer success in 1937, could hardly be considered a big movie, not in the Hollywood terms we usually speak of, it was a key movie in the career of Cary Grant (and for those people who came to love the movies of Cary Grant) because of what it did. [...]

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Topper (1937)

by Bill on June 28, 2009

Directed by Norman Z. McLeod Fun, light and funny, the movie Topper is a delightful screwball comedy. It shares the style of, and comes a year or two after, the classic My Man Godfrey. Though not as good as that film, it excels in many ways, not the least of which is a very good [...]

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The Awful Truth (1937)

by Bill on June 28, 2009

Directed by Leo McCarey Take an affluent couple with little regard for anything but themselves, pit them against each other, and you get The Awful Truth, a genuinely great screwball comedy. Late in the movie, Lucy Warriner (Irene Dunne) quotes back to her husband Jerry (Cary Grant) his own words: “Lend me an ear, I [...]

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My Man Godfrey (1938)

by Bill on January 2, 2009

Directed by Gregory La Cava Everyone has their favourite movie and I have mine – My Man Godfrey. I love screwball comedy, I love Carole Lombard and I love this movie, perhaps because both, the genre and the star, are at the top of their form. And let’s not forget the pitch perfect William Powell [...]

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