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Auction History Result 9f354 TOPPER linen 1sh R44 Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, wacky art of cupid on champagne bottle! Date Sold 7/13/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1944 Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Topper, the classic 1937 Norman Z. McLeod fantasy ghost comedy ("90 Roaring Minutes of Laughs!"; "Based on the novel by Thorne Smith"; produced by Hal Roach; about a handsome young couple who are killed, and they come back as ghosts, but only one man can see them, which causes many comic results) starring Constance Bennett (as Marion Kerby, the female ghost), Cary Grant (as George Kerby, the male ghost), Roland Young (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Cosmo Topper), Billie Burke (Roland Young and Billie Burke are billed as "as Mr. and Mrs."), Alan Mowbray, Eugene Pallette, and Hoagy Carmichael (in a minor uncredited role!). Note that this was an extremely successful movie, and naturally, MGM wanted to make a sequel, but two years later, Cary Grant declined to participate (he was too big a star!), and a script for the sequel was written where he was still in Heaven, and Constance Bennett was accompanied by a dog, Mr. Atlas (played by Asta, the famous dog from the "Thin Man" series!). Two years later, another sequel was made, but Bennett did not return for this sequel, and Joan Blondell starred as a different ghost in need of Mr. Topper's help. In 1953, a successful TV show was made based on this movie, and it starred Leo G. Carroll as Cosmo Topper, and Anne Jeffreys and Robert Sterling as the ghosts, and the show ran for three seasons. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had small paper loss at the bottom two crossfolds and tiny paper loss at the top crossfold. It had tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss scattered in the vertical foldline, with a lesser amount of wear on the horizontal folds. It had pinholes, stains, and a few tears around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did little restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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