Word: toppered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Topper Returns (United Artists) is the straightforward title to a roundabout whodunit. As on two previous occasions, Cosmo Topper, Thorne Smith's shy, baffled little gentleman who consorts with ghosts, is played by wispy Roland Young. This time his customary bewilderment is complicated by a murder in a creaky old manse with sliding panels and secret passageways...
...Topper's nextdoor neighbors are a houseful of leering, peering evildoers and a pair of curvaceous blondes. One blonde (Carole Landis) has returned from China to inherit the place. The other (Joan Blondell) strings along as friend and funster, gets a knife in her back before the night is out. Follows the usual Thorne Smith transmogrification in which Joan turns ghost, floats over to Topper's house, lures him, his wife (Billie Burke), her maid (Patsy Kelly) and his colored chauffeur (Eddie Anderson) back to the scene of the crime for a dose of spooks. Before Topper points...
Perhaps it would have been better if Topper had stayed away, resting on the reputation accrued by the ectoplasmic antics of his first appearance. The charm of trick photography has worn off somewhat, and the stock supply of revolving walls and secret passages fails to bring the picture up to the Studio's previous high mark...
...loss for a top hat to wear to the Junior Ball. Then he read in the paper that Governor Harold E. Stassen wore size 7¾. He wrote the Governor. The Governor wrote back, saying come to the Capitol and pick up his. Haberdashing in his gubernatorial topper, Donald went to the dance...
Second feature, "The Invisible Woman," brings Virginia Bruce as we have always wanted to not see her-invisible. The trick photography is all in the best of Topper tradition; kicks in the pants emanate from the thin air, liquor glasses are drained and cigarettes smoked in their magical suspension. Light but laughy...