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Movie Publicity Showcase Volume 24: Hal Roach's "Topper Takes a Trip" and "Topper Returns"

Movie Publicity Showcase Volume 24: Hal Roach's "Topper Takes a Trip" and "Topper Returns"

Hyatt, I. Joseph

Paperback

Film Studies

ISBN13: 9798882842825
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 26 2024
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Movie Publicity Showcase - Volume 24 places the Hal Roach fantasy film Topper Takes a Trip into its historical first run context, utilizing original press materials from 1939. Read about your favorite stars as they were during the day of the movie's initial release. Topper Takes a Trip stars Constance Bennett as Marion Kirby, Billie Burke as Clara Kirby and Roland Young as Cosmo Topper. It also features Alan Mowbray, Franklin Pangborn, and many others.

Topper Returns was the third film in this series and released in 1941. Topper Returns features Joan Blondell as the spirit of Gail Richards, and brings back Roland Young and Billie Burke to reprise their roles as Cosmo and Clara Topper. Also in the cast are Patsy Kelly, Donald McBride, George Zucco, and H. B. Warner.

See how creative theater managers could draw in an audience when movie exhibition was an art form. This volume also includes material from a 1946 reissue of Topper Returns. Step back into time and see what movie fans of that day experienced when going to the movies! This is the twenty-fourth of a series.

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