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Topper (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Stop Being A Mummy

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Topper (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Stop Being A Mummy From the annual board meeting, top share-holder George (Cary Grant) is disruptive, his inhibited banker friend Roland Young (title character) grumbling afterward before he notices wife Marion (Constance Bennett), in the office, the pair then considering his prospects, in Topper, 1937.

Topper (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Old Man Moon From the opening sequence, affluent George and Marion (Cary Grant, Constance Bennett) go night-clubbing before his morning bank-board meeting, finishing at a joint where they’re on first names with Hoagy Carmichael himself, joining him in an original tune, in the Hal Roach comedy Topper 1937.

Topper (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Probably Talking To Myself In a maybe mid-life crisis and mourning the loss of his client-friends the Kerby’s (Cary Grant and Constance Bennett), banker Roland Young (title character) crashes his new car (a customized 1936 Buick Roadmaster) at the same spot where they died, and is surprised, with lots of trick shots, from producer Hal Roach, in Topper, 1937.

Topper (1937) -- (Movie Clip) What Good Deeds Have You Done? Socialites George and Marion (Cary Grant, Constance Bennett) get killed, motoring home to their posh suburb, first discussing their up-tight banker, the title character (Roland Young, not seen), then their own future, Norman Z. McLeod directing producer Hal Roach’s Topper, 1937.

Turnabout (1940) -- (Movie Clip) See If You Can Find My Stomach Producer-director Hal Roach lays out the ad agency, John Hubbard as energetic partner Willows, secretary Inez Courtney briefing new hire Daisy (Roach's daughter Margaret) about the boozier Manning (Adolphe Menjou), his assistant (Polly Ann Young) attempting control, in Turnabout, 1940.

Turnabout (1940) -- (Movie Clip) I'd Like To Be In Your Shoes Feuding couple Tim (John Hubbard) and Sally (Carole Landis) Willows arguing as ever about who has it easier, him the busy executive or her the bored affluent housewife, George Renavent their exotic statue coming to life, creating the premise in the Hal Roach comedy Turnabout, 1940.

Turnabout (1940) -- (Movie Clip) She Ought To Have A Net Under Her Having switched personalities and voices with her husband (John Hubbard), Sally Willows (Carole Landis) alarms first her staff (Donald Meek, Marjorie Main, Yolande Mollot) then her fellow affluent housewives (Joyce Compton, Mary Astor), in the Hal Roach comedy Turnabout, 1940.

Turnabout (1940) -- (Movie Clip) So Many Irregularities Alpha-male ad exec Tim Willows (John Hubbard) has switched personalities and voices with his wife (Carole Landis) so there’s mayhem as he visits production shoots with his secretary (Verree Teasdale) and his dueling partners (William Gargan, Adolphe Menjou), in the Hal Roach comedy Turnabout, 1940.

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