A New Cosmo Topper?
Comedian Steve Martin is scheduled to reteam with Bringing Down the House director Adam Shankman for a remake of the supernatural comedy Topper, based on Thorne Smith's novel. The original 1937 film starred Roland Young as Cosmo Topper, a stuffy, henpecked bank executive haunted by two mischievous ghosts who reigned as the bank's largest stockholders before their untimely demise. Cary Grant and Constance Bennett played the fun-loving married couple, George and Marion Kerby. In the remake, the couple's names have been changed to George and Mimi Kirby. At this time, Steve Martin is the only actor attached to the film, and no production start date has been announced. Stay tuned!
Topper Facts & Trivia
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- Director: Adam Shankman
- Source Material: Thorne Smith
- Screenplay: Randi Singer
- Producer: Adam Shankman
- Executive Producer: Todd Lieberman
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Steve Martin attached to play Cosmo Topper, an up-tight estate liquidator who's hired to sell off the estate of George and Mimi Kirby, a recently-deceased wealthy young socialite couple who have no intention of letting their ghostly forms stop them from partying... or from trying to show Topper what life's all about.
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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Although this book is a memoir, it provides a blueprint for success in stand-up comedy from one of the masters. The book features black and white photographs from the author's personal collection.
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Topper Lobby Card (1937)
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Learn More About Thorne Smith's Lovable Characters
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The Jovial Ghosts: The Misadventures of Topper
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Thorne Smith was one of the most successful authors of American humor in the late 1920s, whose works brought joy to those living in the largely joyless Depression era. He is most famous for Topper, which was immortalized on the silver screen by film...
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The Topper TV Series
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Thorne Smith's lively characters enjoyed an international audience through a trio of popular Topper movies, and gained new fame when CBS Television produced the episodic comedy series, Topper, in 1953. Veteran character actor Leo G. Carroll was cast...
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Topper Takes a Trip
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In the first of two sequels to the original film, wealthy banker Cosmo Topper's life is once again complicated by ghosts. Topper Takes a Trip opens in divorce court, where Clara Topper has accused her husband of infidelity. Topper attempts to explain...
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Topper
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In 1937, film producer Hal Roach was in search of a screwball comedy, and chose to adapt Thorne Smith's racy novel Topper. The resulting film was a huge success with audiences worldwide. Cary Grant and Constance Bennett were cast as George and Marion...
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Topper Returns
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In the third of producer Hal Roach's Topper comedy films, most of the action takes place in an old, dark mansion, complete with trap doors and secret passageways. Roland Young returns as banker Cosmo Topper, and along with his chauffeur Eddie, offers...
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Topper & Topper Returns
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Topper/Topper Returns
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This DVD includes two movies: the original "Topper" and the second sequel, "Topper Returns." I own this DVD and am quite impressed with the quality of both films. I've watched the colorized version of "Topper Returns" on VHS and the movie is plagued with audio and video dropouts. These films are presented in their original black & white versions; run time: 184 minutes.
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The Jerk
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The Jerk starring that "wild and crazy guy" Steve Martin is a comedy that was filmed back in 1979. In this hilarious movie, directed by Carl Reiner, Steve plays Navin R. Johnson the adopted son of poor sharecroppers who goes o...
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Seymour Krelborn, a poor, geeky young man, works in Mushnik's Flower Shop on Skid Row, which rarely gets customers. He's in love with Audrey, who also works at the flower shop, but she already has a boyfriend, sleazy sadistic dentist Orin Scrivello,...
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